Kushan AE ID help, please.

[Nerosmyfavorite68]

I received the following as part of my Secret Saturnalia.  I know little about Kushan coins and I'd like a little help, please.

Photo credit: EtTu

It's about the size of an As.   I really should get around to getting a caliper and scale.

My guess is a Huvishka AE Tetradrachm.

It was originally part of this lot:  (ooh, what is the lion coin?)

 

 

[Ed Snible]

Kushan coins have a lot of different deities.

Yours names the goddes perfectly.  There is a nice chart at http://coinindia.com/galleries-huvishka.html which should help you.

[Parthicus]

Yep, it's King Huvishka riding an elephant, with goddess Mao reverse.  I think the coin with lion is from either Taxila or Pushkalavati (it's a little out of my expertise).  Nice coins!

[Nerosmyfavorite68]

Thanks for the info!

[DLTcoins]

As @Parthicus suggests, the square coin with the lion is attributed to Pushkalavati, c. 185-160 BC, by Mitchiner (ACW 4401ff). Others attribute the type more broadly to Taxila-Pushkalavati, c. 2nd century BC. Taxila was the principal city of Punjab. Pushkalavati was the leading city of Gandhara. The two historic provinces made up (roughly) the northern region of what we know today as Pakistan, separated by the Indus River with Punjab on the east and Gandhara to the west. Below are two examples I owned some years ago:

 

Edited December 19, 2022 by DLTcoins