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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pellinore, post: 3636791, member: 74834&quot;]Yes, I have. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]975977[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>AR drachm of the <i>Bactrian Yabghu</i>. Zabulistan, about 700. Turk Shahis of Kabul and Gandhara. Obv.: Bust in profile view r., wearing a crown with two crescents attached to the diadem, a pair of wings and a buffalo&#039;s head on top. Outside the margin at 3, 6 and 9 o&#039;clock a crescent with tamga (S61). Rev.: Fire altar with two attendants. With in Pahlavi: unreadable date (mid-6th - early 7th century). 32 mm, 4.31 gr. Vondrovec type 265, p. 527-529 and 630; Göbl Doc. Em 265; <a href="https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=201048" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=201048" rel="nofollow">Zeno 201048</a>. </p><p><br /></p><p>And I have the books by Vondrovec - it builds on the <i>Göbl-Hunnen</i> series, four scientific books in German dating from about 1970, that classifiy the very various Hunnic coins of the 350 - 800 AD period. If you want to know all about these strange coins, all that&#039;s known to science now (or rather, five years ago), you might buy one or two coins less and buy these books for $180. It&#039;s a sylloge, an account of a large collection, not an exhaustive catalog like Mitchiner&#039;s. But most of the types are there. The pics are bit dark, that&#039;s the only problem.</p><p><br /></p><p>Very interesting in Vondrovec&#039;s books is the large series of copper coins that were mostly unknown to Göbl in his day. Many of these interesting types have come to light in the last two decades. Here&#039;s one I have, a small coin (somehow I didn&#039;t measure it): </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]975983[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>AE unit, Kidarites (350-385AD). Obv. Bust in ¾ view right, with a mustache. Crown with vegetal elements and a central globe. On each shoulder a hairball, ribbons on both sides. Rev. Brahmi ‘Kuja//na’. 14.5 mm, 0.83 gr. Vondrovec GC-K 20, see Vol. I p. 42, Type 1.1.3.2.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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