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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 3636767, member: 44316&quot;]Do you ever buy a coin far out of your collecting area(s)?&nbsp; I just got this one from &quot;Tokharistan&quot; which is not your most well-known place.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]975975[/ATTACH]</p><p>30-28 mm. 4.02 grams.</p><p>Clearly based on a Sasanian prototype (Khusru II).</p><p>The seller attributed it to</p><p>Tokharistan,</p><p>Yabghus of Bactria, c. 6th-7th century.</p><p>&quot;Vondrovic Type 265&quot;.&nbsp; Klaus Vondrovic, <i>Coinage of the Iranian Huns and their Successors from Bactria to Gandhara (4th to 8th century CE). </i>That&#039;s a book I don&#039;t have. Do any of you?&nbsp; Is is worth its hefty price tag?</p><p><br /></p><p>I didn&#039;t find it in Mitchner (ACW) even though he has some coins of Afghanistan from that time period.</p><p><br /></p><p>Show us either 1) coins of one of the stans from that era, or 2) a coin obtained recently that is far out of your normal collecting area.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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