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Picked these up today, haven't arrived yet but I'll post them anyway. They are both Indo-Parthian Drachm AE Drachm Gondophares 20-10 BC Struck in the Panthakot area 11mm x 2.5g Senior 222   AE DRachm Gondophares-Sases 30-60 AD Struck in the Panthakot area 11mm x 2.3g Senior 246   |
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Pillar of the Community
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Nice little coins there, Ron. I like!
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Thanks for the links...I'll be reading those pages. Maybe it's about time for you to consider changing your avatar to something Eastern or medieval, Ron.
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Interesting coins, and good that they didn't break the bank.
These coins aren't at the top of my list but neither are they at the bottom. I appreciate them even if I don't own that many. ^^
Congrats on the pick ups.
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Thanks David.
Bob, I might just do that. So many good ones to choose from I'll have to give it some thought.
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Pillar of the Community
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Threads like this make it hard to stick to my focus (Roman Silver from Caesar to Diocletian). Quite beautiful. And cheap too!
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Very nice indeed!
Do you happen to know what the images and inscriptions on the reverse are?
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The reverse on both coins is Athena standing right holding spear and shield. The legend is in Kharoshthi, not sure of the translation.
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Tom Mallon's site has the reverse described as "Pallas standing right with thunderbolt and shield." Perhaps the conflicting descriptions (Pallas versus Athena) are indicative of the sometimes mysterious/indefinite iconography on some Eastern issues. Sort of like the Siva versus Oesho reverse on the Kushan tet I posted yesterday...I've seen it listed both ways. Ron, I think your examples may match - or come close to matching - some of the ones under the "Northwest India - Jammu" section of Tom's Indo-Parthian page at http://grifterrec.rasmir.com/indopa...arthian.htmlI have only one Indo-Parthian to date, and am resisting getting more since it will deplete my reserves for Parthia, Elymais, and the Kushan Empire. With neat little coins like this, you're not making it easy for me to resist diving in headlong, Ron. |
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There also seems to be a conflict in dating these coins, some sources say 20-10 BC, and others say 20-50 AD. Goes to show that some of these eastern types still need to have more research done on them. I actually would be more inclined to believe that the reverse is Pallas as what would be on seen of the coin of the late Indo-Scythians such as Azes.
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My first impression was actually that these had the same reverse as the Baktrian drachms:  |
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Super coin. They all stem from pretty much the same region, so there will be similar in a lot of respects.
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^ should probably disclaim that is a stock image, since I lost my images to the depths of my photobucket account.
But, the cultural diffusion within and to India in antiquity through the middle ages is a fascinating subject that I have only recently become aware was a huge gap in my knowledge of world history.
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