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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 2597935, member: 76194&quot;]#5 is a tie (just like #9). Can&#039;t be helped, sometimes coins are just so good one can&#039;t decide between them.</p><p><br /></p><p>#5(a):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]566601[/ATTACH] <b>Kings of Baktria Indo-Greek</b></p><p><b>Apollodotos I Circa 180/174-165/160 B.C. </b></p><p>AR Square Drachm 20mm. 2.42g.</p><p>Elephant standing right; (RK) monogram below.</p><p>BASILEWS APOLLODOTOU SWTHROS</p><p>Zebu standing right; W below.</p><p>Bopearachchi 4E; SNG ANS 324-327</p><p>Note:&nbsp; Light toning in devices.</p><p><br /></p><p>An elephant and a zebu walk into a bar...I don&#039;t know if you all remember [USER=44183]@stevex6[/USER] &#039;s endless elephant and zebu jokes when I posted this coin in this forum for the first time.</p><p><br /></p><p>She is square, got double the animals most coins have, and Greek and native writing on it (a bilingual coin). What&#039;s not to love about this Indo-Greek beauty?</p><p><br /></p><p>#5(b):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]566602[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Kavadh I</b>, AD 499-531</p><p>AR Drachm, 28mm, 4.1g, 10h</p><p>Obv.: &quot;Kava (may he) prosper&quot; in Pahlavi (crude), with letter base inward; crowned and cuirassed bust right, crescents on shoulders, stars flanking crown.</p><p>Rev.: Fire altar with attendants; star and crescent flanking flames, date in outer left field; mint in outer right field.</p><p>Reference: cf. MACW 1012-16.</p><p><br /></p><p>Not because it is my coin, but this is honestly one of the most beautiful Sassanian coins I have ever seen. The portrait of a young Kavadh I is divine. It also helps that it has such a great story: Kavadh I was the first hippie in the world, becoming vegetarian, giving away his wealth, and promoting free love and not war. He lost his kingdom because he wanted his nobles to share their wives freely with the poor, and this was a step too far for the Sassanian nobility.&nbsp; This got him locked up in the Castle of Oblivion, from where he escaped and reclaimed his kingdom.</p><p><br /></p><p>The moral of the story being: Compulsory wife-swapping leads to rebellion.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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