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<p>[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 12760466, member: 26302"]I just edited my previous post with a gold example for sale. Like this one, I have always seen these listed as "late phase" and remember reading an article postulating why they are so rare. The author in that article claimed they were the last types of Kanishka I based upon overstrike and stylistic changes within the reign.</p><p><br /></p><p>Either way, very rare and I have been angling, (slowly), to try to get one for my collection. I have a pretty decent collection of bronzes, having bought Jongeward's collection of them at Triton a few years back, in addition to the other pieces I have. Gold is the metal I only have a few examples of, (for others, Kushan coins were mainly bimetallic, bronze and gold, silver only really being known in earlier portions of their reign in Sogdiana).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 12760466, member: 26302"]I just edited my previous post with a gold example for sale. Like this one, I have always seen these listed as "late phase" and remember reading an article postulating why they are so rare. The author in that article claimed they were the last types of Kanishka I based upon overstrike and stylistic changes within the reign. Either way, very rare and I have been angling, (slowly), to try to get one for my collection. I have a pretty decent collection of bronzes, having bought Jongeward's collection of them at Triton a few years back, in addition to the other pieces I have. Gold is the metal I only have a few examples of, (for others, Kushan coins were mainly bimetallic, bronze and gold, silver only really being known in earlier portions of their reign in Sogdiana).[/QUOTE]
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