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Message:: [QUOTE="EWC3, post: 3248707, member: 93416"]Hello Doug Maybe others know more, but I think the first is on a Sasanid late K II issue, but (on the basis of what I laughingly call my memory) the two opopo pieces are both on rather good copies of H IV drachms. Are all the undertypes of those copying the same mint and date? I seem to recall so, and that is almost unthinkable in a genuine Sasanid group. There are two ways to approach the Gadhaiya Sasanid stylistic influence. The way Mitchiner seems to prefer is that they are all derived from initial issues we might call “hungeld”. Even the later Gujarat issues track back to a group of hunish fellows who strayed south far into the sub-continent. However, there is also a deeply entrenched Parsi community in Bombay, and they seem to trace their roots back to a claimed exodus of Persians who fled Iran, ahead of the Islamic conquests in the 7th century. The Gadhaiya Paisa issues might find their ultimate roots in either, or indeed both, for all I know. One matter that intrigues me is that the c. 4.17g standard spread far beyond the Gadhaiya Paisa in medieval India. It seems to be the standard of all the various Lakshmi gold issues, and also the Chola gold, silver and copper issues too. All perhaps versions of ‘gadyana’ coins or some such we find mentioned on medieval stone inscriptions. But these just rather random ramblings Rob T[/QUOTE]