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They sure are selling a lot of coin cabinets this sale, 58 lots and quite a few look very expensive.

I don't think that's how they divide it, CNG puts the coinage of Persis in Oriental Greek and their issues don't use Greek. Indo-Scythian and Kushan coinage use Greek, but those are always in Central Asian.

Another coin of Apollodotos I, a rare early circular Attic hemidrachm.

The "EXTREMELY RARE AND IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND" descriptor that every auction house adds to Plato tetradrachms gets less true by the year. It seems to me that the consignor has been smart, and is sending them one at a time to many different auction houses.

The mysterious last-second bidder who shows up to push you to your max at Leu is a well-known phenomenon. He certainly seems to have an uncanny ability to nearly always bid an increment or two below the max, but never to win a coin.

Well, there's only one Triton a year; the consignors probably prefer to sell the coins now rather than wait a year or list in a lesser feature auction.

I would strongly recommend looking at price histories before bidding on any coin anywhere, blindly bidding will result in a very sad day when you eventually consign

We need a multiple dirham here! This one is from Mansur b. Nuh, Kurah Badakshan mint.

Another Menander, this one with Athena on the reverse as well as the obverse.

It's quite standard on Islamic coinage to mention the denomination, for gold, silver, and bronze, beginning with the early post-reform period.

If we're posting Indo-Parthian Pathankot drachms here, here's... a Gondophares drachm, an Abdagases drachm and two Gondophares-Sases drachms.

It is probably Rida, only a small number of governors (Imad, Rida, Tamish, and Udayy) have their name in ObQ3; https://www.zeno.ru/showgallery.php?cat=6452

An update on this from April, which I've only just noticed now: https://www-uniforum-uio-no.translate.goog/nyheter/2023/04/mynter-fra-nasjonalmuseet-i-kabul-forsokt-auksjone.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp Translated from the original Norwegian; sounds like they're currently in the University of Oslo Museum of Cultural History. And, a new photo, from the article:

Auction houses should not be held responsible for the way they themselves describe their coins?

Original Heliokles tetradrachm, the last ruler before the nomads took over: Yuezhi imitation, either by Kujula Kadphises or someone a bit earlier than him: