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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ancientnoob, post: 1633929, member: 44140&quot;]<b>Did Someone Say Vima Takto???</b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Arial">The Empire of the Kushans (Afghanistan, Bactria and North India Bordering China)</font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Arial">Soter Megas - The Great King</font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Arial">Vima Takto r.c. 80-90 AD</font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Arial">AE Tetradrachm 20.9mm (8.42g)</font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Arial">Obverse: Bust of Vima Takto with Royal Greek Headband and the Magic Stick (scepter) Three Pronged Tamgha behind.</font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Arial">Reverse: The Great King Mounted with Scepter and Corrupted Greek Legend BASILEY BASILEYWN SWTHP MEGAS- &quot;The King of Kings- The Great Saviour.&quot;</font></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Arial">Interesting Factoid I found- The king on this coin for the longest was described as the nameless king because the coins legend only says&quot; The king of kings- the great savior in corrupted Greek script. In 1993 the discovery of the Rabatak inscription helped to place the name to face with a written list of his kingship and genealogy.</font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Arial">According to wikipedia (good ol&#039; wikipedia) </font></span></p><p><i>&quot;He is mentioned in the Chinese Historical Chronicle of the Hou Hanshu, in relation to his father Kujula Kadphises:</i></p><p><i>&quot;Qiujiuque (Ch: 丘就卻) [Kujula Kadphises] was more than eighty years old when he died. His son, Yangaozhen (Ch:閻高珍) [probably Vema Tahk(tu) or, possibly, his brother Sadaṣkaṇa], became king in his place. He defeated Tianzhu [North-western India] and installed Generals to supervise and lead it. The Yuezhi then became extremely rich. All the kingdoms call [their king] the Guishuang [Kushan] king, but the Han call them by their original name, Da Yuezhi.&quot;[1]</i></p><p><i>The connection of Vima Takto with other Kushan rulers is described in the Rabatak inscription, which was written by Kanishka. Kanishka makes the list of the kings who ruled up to his time: Kujula Kadphises as his great-grandfather, Vima Takto as his grandfather, Vima Kadphises as his father, and himself Kanishka:&quot;</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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