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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1317699, member: 26302&quot;]The first is a different variety tamgha on the reverse, pretty scarce. I have not read of that is a cross or not. Sometimes a mark is a mark, but again I would like to find one of those for sale, having only seen them in books except for an extremely poorly preserved specimen. Maybe I would have something you would like to trade for it? <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The second is a swastika, I actually bought the exact same coin Saturday, but its a duplicate for me. These are scarce enough I buy what I can without going crazy. They had a Kai Yuan Tong Bao local imitation with an extremely weak reverse mark go for $200, I would have liked that coin but cannot buy everything.</p><p><br /></p><p>For others here, both are coins of the Chach oasis. It was part of greater Sogdiana and used Sogdian scripts and tamghas. All coins like these are very rare in the scheme of things, maybe existing 1 to a 1000 Roman coins, and I am pretty sure that is understating their rarity. The soil of Sogdiana area was rich, but highly acidic. Copper just didn&#039;t survive well, but unfortunately they didn&#039;t struck silver or gold often.</p><p><br /></p><p>Chris[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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