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Owning teeny pieces of history
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Kushan, Vima Takto
Set of ten Huvishka coins, Kushan
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Copper cast coins, Maurya dynasty
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Kushan or local barbarian imitation
Kushan, post Vasudeva
Either Vasudeva or local imitations, showing the king and Goddess Ardoxo (Laxmi)
Bull and Horseman coin with no bull
Bull and Horseman
Punchmarked silver coin
Possibly from the Maurya period
Tiny unidentified silver coin
Copper Paisas from Elichpur mint, a feudatory of Hyderabad Nizam
East India Company
Victoria 1/12 Anna 1890
Portuguese Indian coins
Some unidentified coins
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Indo-Scythian Azes II (35 - 12 BC)
Coin shows bull, symbol of Hinduism; and lion, symbol of Buddhism. Greek and Kharoshti legend.
Kushan - Vasudeva (Bazodeo) I (191 - 225)
First Hindu Kushan king; coin shows the king, and Shiva with bull.
Kushan, Ardoxo
Bahmani Sultanate
Friday, August 22, 2008
Victoria Empress
Quarter Anna, 1896
Victoria Queen
Half Anna 1862
George V
2 Anna, 1919
George VI
Quarter Anna, 1941
2 Anna 1943
1 Anna, 1944
1 Pice, 1945
Monday, August 18, 2008
Akbar Narnol mint AH 964
963 AH, 1556
Cumberland Jack
To Hanover
Kushan imitation coin from Orissa
Crude cast imitation issued in Puri, 3rd century AD
Barbarian imitation of Kushan coin
Hyderabad Feudatory, Elichpur
I'm not sure, but I think the coin shows the mythical tiger Shardula, and is thus from the Wodeyar dynasty of Mysore (Correct me if I'm wrong).
Interesting German token
Sex-taler, Gepragt in Deutschland
Last British Indian Rupee
1947, nickel, George VI
Far East Unidentified
Chinese coin
Unidentified
Two Gwalior coins (Early 20th century)
East India Company, Bombay Presidency
1835 Half Anna
1833 Quarter Anna
EIC
George V Half Rupee
Silver, 1918
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Delhi Sultan Tanka
AH 917 1501-02, Sultan Sikander II Lodi, Debased Silver
Victoria One Rupee
Silver 1880
Kushan coins
Vima Takto (80 - 105), Soter Megas (The Great Saviour) Coin. Bust and King on Horseback
Kanishka (127 - 147). King Kanishka and Oisho
(Above and Below) King Kanishka (127-147) and God Vado (Vayu)
King Huvishka (155 - 187). The king on an Elephant and Sun Goddess Mioro
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