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  1. velarfricative
    They sure are selling a lot of coin cabinets this sale, 58 lots and quite a few look very expensive.
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    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.
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    Another coin of Apollodotos I, a rare early circular Attic hemidrachm.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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
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    We need a multiple dirham here! This one is from Mansur b. Nuh, Kurah Badakshan mint.
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    Another Menander, this one with Athena on the reverse as well as the obverse.
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    It's quite standard on Islamic coinage to mention the denomination, for gold, silver, and bronze, beginning with the early post-reform period.
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    If we're posting Indo-Parthian Pathankot drachms here, here's... a Gondophares drachm, an Abdagases drachm and two Gondophares-Sases drachms.
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    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
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    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:
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    Auction houses should not be held responsible for the way they themselves describe their coins?
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    Original Heliokles tetradrachm, the last ruler before the nomads took over: Yuezhi imitation, either by Kujula Kadphises or someone a bit earlier than him:
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    I think, but am not certain, that this is an example of the Sri Narendra type. At the very least, the legend seems different from the normal Pratapaditya type. And also, here's a Mihirakula issue.
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    In the year or so since this post, I actually have managed to get some silver. A drachm (2.80g) of Pakores, and a much smaller drachm (1.57g) of Sases, citing "Aspabharata" on the reverse.
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    These are now attributed to a king named Sandan, with the former name "Vakhudeva" more properly translated as "Lord of the Oxus". Vondrovec gives the full readings (following Sims-Williams) of the legends on the obverse as "sri candana vakhudevah", "His Perfection Candana, Lord of the Oxus" and "σρι βαγο αζροβδδιγο σανδανο βαγο χοαδηο", "His Perfection, the Lord, the Chiliarch Sandano, His Perfection, the Lord"
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    The sale seems to be primarily coins getting flipped from previous Roma sales, or from other sales within the last year or so. Nearly everything I've looked at has a very recent provenance, except for stuff that's obviously from hoards.
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    The Kushans were not Indo-Greek, but rather from Central Asia. Here is an issue of Kanishka III:
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    Here's a couple scarcer types: Menander I, Indo-Greek Diomedes, Indo-Greek Maues, Indo-Scythian
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    Bottom row third from right is an Indo-Parthian tetradrachm, possibly Abdagases; second from right is a Mujatria tetradrachm.
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    I was unaware of any Arab-Sasanian coins like this one, how was this determined to be an Arab issue and not just normal Sasanian?
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    My own Buddha coins: Tetradrachm (Shakyamuni Buddha) Drachm (Shakyamuni Buddha) Tetradrachm (Maitreya Buddha)
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    I mean, not just Roma E-Sales, those owls hit every major auction house for years (and continue to do so, I presume)
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