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<p>[QUOTE="Amit Vyas, post: 5411802, member: 117268"]Nice coins. The tetradrachms are quite common, but hard to find in a good state of preservation. The ithyphallic aspect (seen in your second coin) is usually the first to wear away and the first thing I see while evaluating these (wonder what Freud would say).</p><p><br /></p><p>I don’t think Oesho/Shiva is holding a deer-skin in the other hand. His hand is merely resting over the bull’s hump. I have a couple of better-preserved examples that show this clearly. Will post images later.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Amit Vyas, post: 5411802, member: 117268"]Nice coins. The tetradrachms are quite common, but hard to find in a good state of preservation. The ithyphallic aspect (seen in your second coin) is usually the first to wear away and the first thing I see while evaluating these (wonder what Freud would say). I don’t think Oesho/Shiva is holding a deer-skin in the other hand. His hand is merely resting over the bull’s hump. I have a couple of better-preserved examples that show this clearly. Will post images later.[/QUOTE]
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