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I agree there are two beautiful coins.

 

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Just got this 1804 Draped Bust Half Cent graded by PCGS.

 

Amazing Half Cent coins. it's first time I have ever seen one other than books. You should feel proud. Steve

 

Today I received the 1972 Eisenhower and getting close r on completing the album someday. Steve

 

Picked up this modern commemorative just the other day:

 

Very cool interesting conversation coin. I like it. Steve

 

I'm not sure if I posted these yet. Got the two for $1850 but gold was $1220 at the time.

 

Good buy

 

Nice Gold Panda. I would like to own some gold someday. Real nice. Steve

 

Picked this one up from Rick Snow this week. Unfortunately, there's a light scratch across the obverse that I can't stand, so it's going back. It looked 65 to me and just a hair from being RB.

PCGS MS64 BN (mine)


PCGS MS65+ RB (for reference)

 

I looked your coin over. Is it the scratch that runs from just off the nose down into the I in United?.

 

I can not find the right words to say but all of those coins are EYE CANDY. Friends of mine ask me why I like this hobby and to them it just change to spend. For me it is art, history who's hands held those coins at one time. I like all coins, tokens, medals ect... value or no value. It is fun. Great looking coins. Steve

 

You can't tell from those pics.

 

A beauty for sure.

 

I tend to lean more towards roman and greek ancients but sometimes eastern/indian coinage peeks my interest.


Kushans, Vima Taktu ("Soter Megas”) (80 - 100 A.D.)
Æ Tetradrachm
O: No legend. Diademed, radiate bust right, holding scepter; behind, tamgha; 12 rays above head.
R: BACIΛEV BACIΛEVWNCWTHP MEΓAC ("King of Kings, the Great Savior"). Horseman right, holding whip; before, tamgha.
20mm
9.09g
MACW 2935 ("Taxila series").

The actual name of the Kushan king called by the epithet "Soter Megas"("Great Savior") on his coins was unknown until the 1993 discovery of an inscription at Rabatak in Afghanistan, written by the Kushan king Kanishka. The Rabatak inscription lists the lineage of Kushan kings who had ruled up to that time: his great-grandfather Kujula Kadphises; his grandfather, Vima Taktu, his father, Vima Kadphises; and himself, Kanishka. Mention is seemingly also made of Vima Taktu in the Chinese chronicle Hou Hanshu, in relation to his father, Kujula Kadphises:

“Qiujiuque [Kujula Kadphises] was more than eighty years old when he died. His son, Yangaozhen [apparently Vima Taktu] became king in his place. He defeated Tianzhu [northwestern India] and installed generals to supervise and lead it. The Yuezhi then became extremely rich. All the kingdoms call [their king] the Guishuang[Kushan] king, but the Han call them by their original name, Da Yuezhi”.

 

Mat nice coin and great information about the coin.