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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 4292772, member: 82322&quot;]I have a &quot;Sri Ha&quot; coin but I don&#039;t have any references and don&#039;t know how to read it.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1092736[/ATTACH] </p><p>Chahamanas in Rajasthan (?), circa 900-1100 CE, North India, 21mm 3.8g</p><p>Obv: Very stylized crowned bust (based on the Hunnic coins of Vasudeva?), wearing winged and turreted headdress, SRI HA in Brahmi characters in front of the bust</p><p>Rev: Stylized fire altar with attendants on both sides.</p><p>cf. India » Medieval India - Hindu dynasties » Northern India » Later Indo-Sasanian » <a href="https://www.zeno.ru/showgallery.php?cat=2978" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.zeno.ru/showgallery.php?cat=2978" rel="nofollow">Unattributed Indo-Sasanian coins, AD 780-980</a>; Maheshwari <i>Imitations in Continuity</i> #1030ff (according to Alex Fishman, I don&#039;t have the reference to check) </p><p><br /></p><p>I am struggling to read the SRI HA in &quot;Brahmi&quot;.&nbsp; I know the Indian script evolved a lot.&nbsp; I can find early Brahmi and modern Brahmi-derived scripts online but does the script on these coins match anything I recognize in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmi_script#Evolution_of_the_Brahmi_script" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmi_script#Evolution_of_the_Brahmi_script" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmi_script#Evolution_of_the_Brahmi_script</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The letter SRI also confuses me.&nbsp; I couldn&#039;t find a letter SRI in classical Brahmi.&nbsp; I found a Wikipedia page on &quot;SRI&quot; which shows it in dozens of languages but not classical or late Brahmi.&nbsp; Could you maybe highlight the characters SRI and HA on one of your better examples to show me what I should be looking for?</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shri" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shri" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shri</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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