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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Chris B, post: 26364512, member: 87179&quot;]I have always liked this type. Finally picked one up this week at just over melt. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1682594[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>INDIA. Kushano-Sasanian Empire. Vasudeva I (ca. AD 190-230). AV dinar (19mm, 7.99 gm, 12h). AU. Bactria, early series imitative issues in the name of Vasudeva I, ÞAONONOÞAO BAOZΔHO KOÞANO (blundered), Vasudeva I standing facing, nimbate head left, wearing diadem with ribbons to right, jeweled triangular helmet with forehead crescent, clad in full armor with long-sleeved knee-length tunic, coils covering arms, top as chain mail, shirt of plate mail, worn over trousers and high boots, long sword on hip projecting right, sacrificing with right hand over altar at left, grounded trident in left hand; filleted trident to left, nandipada to right / OhÞO, Ithyphallic Siva standing facing with two arms and single head, hair in topknot with curls outlining face, wearing ankle-length dhoti with symmetrical folds, erect lingam, diadem in right hand, trident with annulet on bent shaft in left; the bull Nandi standing left in background, tamgha to upper left, three pellets below bull&#039;s head, dotted border. ANS Kushan 1689 var. (pellet behind bull).</p><p><br /></p><p>Vasudeva I, reigning from the 190s-230s AD, oversaw the later part of the Golden Age of the Kushan Empire. The iconography of his coinage was starkly Shivan, in a break from the pervasive Iranic syncretism of previous Kushan coins. Vasudeva I was the last Kushan ruler to be recorded by Chinese sources, implying that the subsequent Sasanian invasion of Central Asia would rob the Kushana of their geopolitical significance. The Vasudevan dinars were probably the basis for early imitative gold issues of the Kushano-Sasanians and later Hunnic tribes.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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