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The hive mind never disappoints.
Nice work gentlemen.
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I also want to note that this coin was found in Maine (U.S.) Any significance to that? Coincedence? I believe it was found on the ground (I'll have to ask my buddy later about it again)  Edited by likemopinto
03/13/2016 4:29 pm
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Any significance to that? No. I can't quite visualize a bunch of Kushans having a clam bake on a Maine beach two thousand years ago. Simply dropped by a collector. |
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Here is one of mine.   |
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He's on my list to get. I've been putzing around with Kushan AE's as a low-level side project. They're quirky and often in rough shape, but I find them appealing.  Edited by Kamnaskires
03/13/2016 10:18 pm
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Yeah, those same thugs who ended the Parthians and Elymaeans. I'll never forgive them.
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Yeah, those same thugs who ended the Parthians and Elymaeans. Sounds like the people I know from Maine. Rough hairy beasts--all of them.  "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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Nice set, Ron. Good to see them together like this...I think I remember a few, like the Soter Megas AE's, from individual posts in the past. I've got to get one of those Huvishka elephant tets at some point...I am fond of those.
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Yes... 911? My thread has been hijacked. Please send assistance.
On the flipside maybe I won't call them. I'll let my tommy gun do the talking. =P
Nice coins... if only the Kushans knew how to organize a clam bake I may have been on to something. Who knows... I think chalking it up to a collector dropping it is too easy of an explanation. The coin was found 40 years ago about a foot into the ground. I would put money on it that there is more there and considering the condition of the coin, probably wasn't a collector's item. I'm thinking of something much more insidious. Like... slave trade.
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Sorry about that, we get carried away sometimes and love to show off our coins.
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I had to attempt to stick up for myself just a tiny bit. I'm growing more fond of coins the longer this thread gets... post away. The whole 2000 year old thing has me intrigued.
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The coin was found 40 years ago about a foot into the ground. Bear in mind that ancient coin collecting has been going on for a long time with, as Wayne Sayles points out in his "Ancient Coin Collecting" book, a "nineteenth century.expansion of the common man's participation in (the hobby)." It's not too uncommon for ancients, having been brought over - then lost - by European immigrants, to be found/dug up in odd spots throughout North America...although - granted - these are usually of the ancient Greek and Roman varieties. |
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One example featured on CCF several years ago was literally titled "Did the Carthaginians set foot in Nova Scotia?" (a rather uncommon Carthaginian coin was found in said part of Canada). |
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