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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;FitzNigel, post: 2298704, member: 74712&quot;]Who is Mitchiner??</p><p><br /></p><p>TO THE GOOGLES!!!</p><p><br /></p><p>He authored a big catalogue of Indo-Greek coins.&nbsp; I have not looked at any of them, but have used Bopearachchi for some Bactrian Coins, such as this guy:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]461665[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Kingdom of Bactria</p><p>Menander I Soter, r. c. 165/55-130 B.C. </p><p>AE Square Chalkos, 20mm x 2.29 grams</p><p>Obv.: BASILEWS SWTHR MENANDROU around Elephant head right with trunk raised, wearing bell around neck</p><p>Rev.: Kharosthi around Club of Herakles; monogram to left, A to right</p><p>Ref.: Bopearachchi 28E, HGC 12, 197</p><p><br /></p><p>Attributing them I believe is up to personal taste - no right or wrong way (and I&#039;m fairly certain there have been several discussions of this on the forum)</p><p><br /></p><p>For grading, there is no 70 point scale.&nbsp; I believe this is another &#039;open to interpretation.&#039;&nbsp; I use a general &#039;good, about fine, fine, extremely fine.&#039;&nbsp; These I would place in the &#039;good&#039; to maybe &#039;about good&#039; category, but I can&#039;t see them in-hand </p><p><br /></p><p>For price, I don&#039;t know.&nbsp; If you&#039;re happy, then it was a good price.</p><p><br /></p><p>My personal view of Ancients is that the hobby reflects the time frame - not as structured, and there are fewer people to tell you what to do.&nbsp; This continues with medieval as well which is even less structured than ancients...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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