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I know I haven't touched my Indo Sassanian thread since the Photobucket fiasco, but I have been quietly working behind the scenes. Hoping to get the new and improved threads up and running, this time with revised and actually useful "Finn numbers" for reference purposes. Anyway, to hopefully prod me into action, I jumped on the chance to get Maheshwari's book, Imitations in Continuity for about half the normal asking price. If anyone else is interested, they still have a few available: https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/Se...786284-_-all(Before checking out, there is at least one 10% off coupon that you can apply at checkout. Just Google "abe books coupon code" and you should be able to find it) To keep my study "clean", I am going to *try* to make myself finish it before I am allowed to open my new shiny book. Afterward, I will revisit my threads and expand on any points Maheshwari and I disagree on (he apparently only has two types of Gadhaiya Paisa, so I am sure there will be some!) as well as provide inights I cannot provide, such as find spots and metallurgical analysis. Disclaimer: Not saying that my study will be done in the immediate future; I still have a lot of work left to go, and lots of "real life" things taking precedence over spending a couple hours in front of my computer. Edited by Finn235
08/28/2017 11:08 am
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Congrats on picking up the book. I've been buying a lot of books lately, finally picked up a copy of Sellwoods book on Parthian coins. Got an excellent deal from ANE on Vcoins.
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Sounds like an interesting read! Looking forward to the new threads: your old ones piqued my interest in Indo-Sasanian coins. Keep up the good work!
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Looking forward to the "new and improved" posts. The original was one of my all-time favorite CCF threads.
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Thanks all! I really enjoyed writing the study, but it means a whole lot that others found it useful and inspiring!
Also @Ron or Bob, I am really curious to know how authors such as Michener and Deyell covered the series. I don't ever intend to drop that kind of cash on a reference book. Have you ever had a chance to thumb through either before?
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I've been wanting to buy Mitchner's books but they are too expensive for me. Not seen Deyell.
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Not sure about Mitchiner, Steve. While I did borrow a copy from a coin friend last month (which I've since returned), my nose was buried in the Parthian section as I was doing some research in that area. Are you familiar with Wilfried Pieper's Ancient Indian Coins Revisted? I haven't seen a copy in person and so I don't have an opinion to offer. But CNG's description does mention the "portrait-fire altar types" are covered. https://cNGCoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=241308 |
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Dredging this thread up since it's on my mind today... so I bought the book from A-Z Books back in August. It still hadn't arrived in September, and after circling around with the seller (and repeated reassurances that "Sometimes customs take a while, but your book will arrive soon") I got a refund. Bought it from BookVistas, and here we are nearly two months later... still no Maheshwari and getting the same canned vagueries reassuring me that I will get it soon.  I'm beginning to have my doubts that these sellers are even sending the books to begin with. I should have just ponied up an extra $10 to get my book months ago! Next up will be a bookseller from the UK... anyone have any luck getting books from there? Anyway, I have a nice big chunk of my new threads typed up in notepad documents, just lost steam as I need to sit down and re-image all of the coins to fit the 300kb size requirement. I promise I haven't forgotten about the coins!  |
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Sorry to hear you still haven't received the book, I know how frustrating that is. Where was it supposed to be shipped from? I usually try to avoid buying outside the US which helps to avoid this type of problem. I've had problems in the past especially for having coins shipped for the UK, having several packages never arriving.
Hope the book arrives soon.
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Both book sellers were from India. Imitations in Continuity is not a widely published book, so I have only found it from India ($50-60 after shipping) and the UK ($65-100 after shipping). Regardless, I think I'll pay a bit more for expedited shipping, just for more assurance that it will actually arrive.
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I've been buying a lot of books lately Me too--I just picked up van't Haaff! "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."
-----King Adz
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Refund from the last purchase attempt finally cleared, so trying this one more time for the new year! I was able to track down a reasonably priced copy from a US seller: https://www.biblio.com/book/imitati.../d/506010192I spent the extra $3 for expedited shipping... hopefully that will get me tracking so this one doesn't go poof into the nether realms! |
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Took a bit of going around and around, but the book finally arrived! Couldn't resist giving it a flip-through, and a few surprising discoveries:
1) My collection of ~225 utterly pales in comparison to his 1,000+.
2) He and I disagree on some pretty fundamental points; namely he argues that there were two parallel tracks of development within the anepigraphic Gadhaiya track. I'll have to cozy up and read that chapter to see if I agree with him.
3) He illustrated many types I was not even remotely aware of. His ability to translate the inscribed Pratihara-Pala types shed an incredible amount of light on the subject. I have work to do!
4) The overwhelmingly vast majority of "Gadhaiya" types are of extremely high silver purity. Some (wich I call Finn 1.1 or the Hunnic type) were in excess of 95% pure (!) while even some late degenerate styles were 80% pure. The Pratihara-Pala type however, were lower than I expected, some as little as 5% silver and almost none close to the 20% figure I had seen quoted from contemporary texts.
5) I have many types that Maheshwari didn't (insert elation), and my analysis is more thorough on many of the types. I was disappointed that he called the attendants a "meaningless pile of dots" while that is demonstrably not the case.
Bottom line, I am going to lean on his analysis of the types I don't have available to me, but I am pressing on my current course, and asserting that the Gadhaiya were the product of a single-channel imitation event, at least until the rise of the dumpy "malwa" types. I'm hoping to be able to find Dr. Maheshwari's contact info so that I can solicit his attention and hopefully start a dialogue that's beneficial to the study of the type!
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I saw your mini meltdown in another section Steve, your patience finally paid off  Another good start to 2018  |
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