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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Finn235, post: 3495835, member: 98035&quot;]It&#039;s fun seeing what examples of rare coins a diverse group of specialists can turn up.&nbsp; I like Roman coins a lot, and own my share of rarities there, but I love Indo Sassanian coinage; a passion shared by only a few. Not many coins slip past me, and thanks to their unpopularity, there are few that I am unable to win if I really want them. Some favorite examples:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]925702[/ATTACH]</p><p>Looks like a regular Gadhaiya, but the lips are replaced by a circle, possibly the same punch used to make the sun on the Horseman types. This type was not known to Mitchiner, Deyell, or Maheshwari - this particular coin came from Lanz&#039;s ebay store in early 2017 and was followed last year by a couple dozen more, of which I was able to get about six. No two coins are a die match, and few are even of the same style and fabric. But who besides me cares enough to want one? Almost nobody else bid on the coins, and owning about a quarter of all known specimens cost me less than $100. Maybe thousands will be posted for sale next year, or maybe they will never be seen again?</p><p><br /></p><p>A popular type is the &quot;distinctive nose&quot; type which has an elephant trunk-like swirl before the bust. The type is known to Mitchiner, Deyell, and Maheshwari, the latter of whom studied a hoard of a couple hundred of the type. All three authors studied dumpy coins in impressively low grade billon of just 1-2%. They do exist in better silver.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]925706[/ATTACH]</p><p>This one wasn&#039;t cheap, but is the only specimen I have ever seen that shows the moon... and it&#039;s upside down and on the wrong side! This one also shows the die break that probably erased the original face:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]926015[/ATTACH] </p><p>Those with a face are also extremely rare, unknown to any published catalog, and I have only seen images of about six specimens, of which I own two.</p><p><br /></p><p>Converse examples; Maheshwari got his hands on hoards of hundreds of coins that I rarely if ever see come up for sale.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is the grandfather of all Indo Sassanian coinage, an Indian-minted Peroz imitation with retained pseudo-legends</p><p>[ATTACH=full]926016[/ATTACH] </p><p>I&#039;ve only seen a couple ever come up for sale, and none in more than two years - these coins make up about the first 250 coins of Maheshwari&#039;s book!</p><p><br /></p><p>Likewise, this is an extremely rare early &quot;Sri Ma&quot; drachm I won in a Roma group lot; the only one I have seen for sale since starting in 2016</p><p>[ATTACH=full]926018[/ATTACH] </p><p>Maheshwari had a few dozen of these, plus hundreds more that I have never even seen for sale.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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