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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Spaniard, post: 5132345, member: 90248&quot;][USER=81887]@Parthicus[/USER] ......Nice coin showing the ob legend...The softer more detailed portrayals of the king and Lakshmi are assumed to be a lifetime issue, the op reverse for example showing the arms of the goddess in comparison to my postumus issue being much more abstract..</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1204234[/ATTACH] </p><p>Here also is a breakdown of the legends, maybe helps?</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1204235[/ATTACH] </p><p>As to your question of the claw....I really have no idea apart from they&#039;re always the most difficult part of a body to draw?<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie5" alt=":confused:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />....I initially identified this depiction as flames coming up from the altar but have since changed my opinion as this mad hand is also replicated to the left hand holding the trident see below..</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1204240[/ATTACH] </p><p>I started researching the Toramana II coins a few years ago now (on and off), and found this blank void of three centuries, from the end of his coinage around the latter half of 6th century to a sudden reinstatement of a very similar design of coin appearing in the mid 9th century, really intriguing....As to how long his posthumous issues were minted no one seems to know but imo it wasn&#039;t for 300 years!</p><p><br /></p><p>A while back I put together a timeline of this series approximately 100 years between coin types and hopefully this shows the continued abstraction of the design..</p><p>Note...The coins of Toramana II show the rulers name enscribed on the kings side of the coin....300 years later the rulers name has been tranferred onto the Lakshmi side....</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1204242[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>.....</p><p>Here&#039;s a my latest pick up...</p><p>A nice lifetime issue of Toramana II with an added bonus!</p><p>The reason I bought this coin is at 7 0&#039;clock on the reverse you can clearly see the lions head that Lakshmi is seated on...Quite difficult to find the lion depicted in such detail. As to whether Lakshmi is sitting on the lion or its laid at her feet I don&#039;t really know but I&#039;ve seen references to both and has even been described as a lion rug!?..But one things for sure as this coin series progressed, disappeared and then reappeared 300 years later, the lion was no longer there being replaced by an abstract triangle or square.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1204249[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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