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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ancientnoob, post: 1632420, member: 44140&quot;]<font face="sans-serif"><span style="color: #000000">月氏 or the Yuezhi, but better known to us as the Kushan. A once destitute and subjugated nomadic people from a land deep in western China. They&nbsp; moved into Central Asia in the latter half of the 1st cent. BC. They destroyed the Greco-Bactrian kingdom that stood for nearly two centuries. They founded the Kushan Empire a super power that would last for the next two centuries, Greek art, language and numismatic themes remained popular culture in the era of the Kushan. </span></font></p><p><font face="sans-serif"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></font></p><p><font face="sans-serif"><span style="color: #000000">This coin is of a rare type I have been looking for on and off since becoming interested in the region. I have built a meager collection of tribal coins of the &quot;other guys&quot; of antiquity, and this coin I consider one of the jewels in that crown. It arrived today. It always bothers me when I pay &quot;good money&quot; for such a small coin. I justified this to myself, as it is rare .( as I have read in a few places.) I think the coin is in better shape then 80% I have been able to find pictures of, and that pleases me. So I consider it a fair deal. The coin is from a branch of the Yue chi ruled by Sapadbizes.</span></font></p><p><font face="sans-serif"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></font></p><p><font face="sans-serif"><span style="color: #000000">I found a tiny wikipedia entry and a few other sites for coins of this ruler.</span></font></p><p><font face="sans-serif"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></font></p><p><font face="sans-serif"><span style="color: #000000"></span></font>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapadbizes<font face="sans-serif"><span style="color: #000000"></span></font></p><p><font face="sans-serif"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></font></p><p><font face="sans-serif"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></font></p><p><font face="sans-serif"><span style="color: #000000">Comments, additions, suggestions, corrections and the like are always welcome.</span></font></p><p><font face="sans-serif"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></font></p><p><font face="sans-serif"><span style="color: #000000">Yue-Zhi, Yue-Chi Tribal Confederacy </span></font></p><p><font face="sans-serif"><span style="color: #000000">Sapadbizes</span></font></p><p><font face="sans-serif"><span style="color: #000000"></span></font>AR hemidrachm c. 20 BCE</p><p>14.6mm x 1.41g</p><p>Helmeted bust right, greek legend: CAΠAΛBIZHC /</p><p>Lion standing right, tamgha of hill &amp; crescent above</p><p>Greek legend right and left: NANAIA</p><p>Ref:&nbsp; MAC 2824.<font face="sans-serif"><span style="color: #000000"></span></font></p><p><font face="sans-serif"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></font></p><p><font face="sans-serif"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></font></p><p><font face="sans-serif"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></font></p><p><font face="sans-serif"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></font></p><p><font face="sans-serif"><span style="color: #000000"></span></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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