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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Loong Siew, post: 2239039, member: 75799&quot;]Buddhist Kingdom of Khotan (circa 1st - 3rd Century AD).</p><p><br /></p><p>Copper 6 Zhu (铢)。</p><p><br /></p><p>The Sino-Kharosthi script coin belonged to a lost ancient Buddhist Kingdom of Khotan 和田 in what is now part of the Xinjiang province of China. Although they lasted through to the Tang, coins bearing the Sino-Kharosthi script are exceedingly scarce with earliest records and limited samples found by the late Ariel Stein while excavating the ruins of the desert of modern Khotan. These coins are of high copper content thus their conditions being buried in the desert often leaves much to be desired. </p><p><br /></p><p>These coins often bear motifs of the treasured horse from the steppes. However some varieties bearing motifs of camels were also noted. Being a melting pot of civilizations, the coin bears a very interesting synthesis of kharosthi (an ancient northern Indian cumore central Asian languange) as well as Han Characters.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]441367[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]441368[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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