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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 2252329, member: 26302&quot;]As an update, I bought another one of these:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]445805[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>It occurred to me where I have seen this scene before:</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;[ATTACH=full]445806[/ATTACH] </p><p>This is a Phoenician silver coin from Sidon. So we have a Phoenician coin struck around 360BC being copied in the heart of Central Asia about 500 AD. Wow, I bet there is a really weird story there. How did the originals get there? But, if you rotate the obverse even the waviness of the Kesh portrait hair is imitative of the waves on the Phoenician coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yeah, this is a head scratcher.</p><p><br /></p><p>Next I bought this as well:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]445808[/ATTACH]</p><p>This is seller&#039;s pic showing how the coin at top has traces of the Kesh undertype. There are other traces if you look on both sides. It shows a coin supposedly a of Asbar from Bukhara but overstruck on one of these Kesh coins. The reverse is a good imitation of the Bukharan coin, but the obverse looks off. So, what is this going on? A local imitation of a Kukharan coin overstruck on a much rarer coin from Kesh? Why would they wish to imitate Bukharan coins at the expense of Kesh coins? Did Bukhara conquer Kesh in this period?</p><p><br /></p><p>So, a couple of unanswered questions, but fun nonetheless.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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