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All help gratefully received. Thank you. Diameter 14mm. Weight 2.3 gms.   *** Moved by Staff moved to a more appropriate forum. *** |
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@RD, sorry that I can't help more other than to orient your second image correctly (man riding horse). I can't quite make out the inscriptions from your pics. Any chance you can read even partial inscriptions with the coin in hand?  "If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
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"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
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Thanks Spence, I have been searching and wondered if it was Nikias of Baktria ? I am totally useless at reading greek / roman legends even in hand.
Edit - after further searches maybe :
Ancient Coinage of Indo Scythians, Azilises
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12/16/2018 07:58 am
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Ok yes perhaps even Azes II. Why don't you request to the mods to move your thread over to the ancient and medieval section of CCF so that @echizento and others will see it and (potentially) weigh in?
"If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
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Would need to see better pictures to be sure, you can try cleaning the coin up a bit by soaking it in distilled water or olive oil. I prefer the oil. Any way I believe your coin is early Kushan of the King Vima Takha (Soter Megas). Here is a link to some of his coins. Yours is listed, but similar. http://coinindia.com/galleries-vima-takha.html |
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Well, the obverse seems to show a man with a hat and a guitar. The reverse shows him on a horse. I'm leaning toward an early cowboy coin.
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Thanks echizento I will give it a bath.
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Well, the obverse seems to show a man with a hat and a guitar. The reverse shows him on a horse. I'm leaning toward an early cowboy coin. Specifically, a man with a hat and a guitar pointing a gun at his own head. I dunno why. |
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...a gun at his own head. No doubt it was issued as a promotional trinket when "Blazing Saddles" hit the theaters.  |
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No doubt it was issued as a promotional trinket when "Blazing Saddles" hit the theaters. Yes, exactly like that! I'm actually surprised how similar the pose seems to be. ...Someone should make this into a Totally Looks Like entry. Is that series still going? |
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Did you notice the guy on the horse is wearing chaps?
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Would like to see what it looks like cleaned up, if it's silver than I agree it's Azes II.
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I came across this old thread when searching for something else, and the OP coin resembles one in my collection that I got some time ago. Different sites have identified the figure on the reverse as either Zeus or Pallas, but I have never seen Zeus wearing a hat. There is a device that looks like a trident below the horse's head on the obverse. Can anyone tell me what the apple shaped device to the left of Zeus/Pallas on the reverse represents?  It came with this handwritten description from the former owner, who was apparently an archaeologist of note. (No name given.)  Azes II, King of Taxila. 15BC - 20AD Obverse: King holding implement; mounted on horse walking right. Reverse: Zeus (Pallas?) standing left holding Nike. Kharosthi legend. Billon? Diameter 13mm. Weight 2.25gr. |
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Can anyone tell me what the apple shaped device to the left of Zeus/Pallas on the reverse represents? Not sure, Jim, but it's referred to in the linked listing below (if the link works) as "altar or pomegranite" [sic]. Edit: link didn't work...will post a screenshot soon... Edited by Kamnaskires
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