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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 3557054, member: 82322&quot;]I also lack the catalog.&nbsp; I believe this web site is associated with the catalog.&nbsp; It has some great coins.&nbsp; <a href="http://pro.geo.univie.ac.at/projects/khm/?language=en" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://pro.geo.univie.ac.at/projects/khm/?language=en" rel="nofollow">http://pro.geo.univie.ac.at/projects/khm/?language=en</a></p><p><br /></p><p>It can be very hard to tell the Hun issues from the Western Turk issues.&nbsp; The Western Turks took over but continued creating coins in the same style.&nbsp; Here is a late Western Turk example with trilingual inscription (inscriptions in Brahmi, Pahlevi and Baktrian):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]945628[/ATTACH] </p><p>Western Turk Rulers in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabulistan" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabulistan" rel="nofollow">Kabulistan</a>/<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zabulistan" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zabulistan" rel="nofollow">Zabulistan</a>, c.700-750 AD. 3.3 grams, 32 mm</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Vakku Deva&quot;/&quot;Sandan&quot;/&quot;Pangul&quot;. Drachm. Bimetallic: silver with gold plug area of neck.</p><p><br /></p><p>Obv: Brahmi legend: VAKHUDEVAH; SRI VAJARA <i>or</i> sri candana vakhudevah (“His Perfection Candana, Lord of the Oxus”); Bactrian (outside) legend: CPI BOGO OZPOBOOI GO CONOONO BOGO XOOOHO “His Perfection, the Lord, the Chiliarch Sandano, His Perfection, the Lord”; Bust with winged lion&#039;s head-crescent moon crown; c/m: tamgha (<a href="https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=156142" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=156142" rel="nofollow">cm139</a> but due to placement it looks different because the main type shows through the countermark.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Rev: Bactrian legend: CPI BOGO OOHBO BOGOOI PO KOGONO COI BOGI “His Perfection, the Lord, his Majesty, the Bactrian Kagan, his Perfection, the Lord”; Pahlavi: <i>&#039;pzwn&#039;; P&#039;&#039; shmr&#039;t</i> “increase”…”from Glory..”; Fire altar flanked by two attendants; star and crescent flanking flames.</p><p><br /></p><p>Göbl, <i>Dokumente</i> Em. 244; MACW 1562; for c/m: Göbl, <i>Dokumente</i> KM 103.</p><p>cf. Afganistan / Pakistan Area » Nezak and Western Turk Dynasties » Turk Shahi Kings of Kabul and Gandhara, ca 650 to early 9th C. » <a href="https://www.zeno.ru/showgallery.php?cat=12611" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.zeno.ru/showgallery.php?cat=12611" rel="nofollow">Sandan</a> </p><p><br /></p><p>Crazy headgear.&nbsp; Tom Mallon called the headgear <a href="http://grifterrec.org/coins/huns/huns3.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://grifterrec.org/coins/huns/huns3.html" rel="nofollow">&#039;Senmerv&#039; Crown Type</a>. Quant Geek on Zeno calls the headgear <a href="https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=140887" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=140887" rel="nofollow">bull head crown</a>. To me it the thing on top of the wings looks like a beast-with-mane, such as <a href="https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=155882" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=155882" rel="nofollow">cm150</a>, but in 3/4 view similar to <a href="https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=155878" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=155878" rel="nofollow">cm149</a>.&nbsp; Vondrovec calls it a &quot;lion&#039;s head&quot;.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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