Period:Unknown Production date:123 BC – 88 BC
Materials:copper alloy
Technique:
Subjects:king/queen equestrian
Dimensions:Die-axis: 01 o’clock Diameter: 19 millimetres Weight: 3.41 grammes
Description:
Copper alloy coin. (whole)
IMG
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Comments:The coins were purchased at Karghalik. Stein describes this in Ruins of Desert Cathay, p. 141 (quoted in Wang 2004, p. 248): “An imposing posse of Hindu money-lenders which received me some three miles from the town showed that the business of these sharp Shikarpuris flourished more than ever. Since 1901 their community had increased by some thirty percent of new arrivals… Among the Shikarpuris who subsequently in a solemn deputation came to pay their respects at my temporary quarters, there was one who had drifted to Karghalik from Bokhara some twenty years before. He was a queer-looking man with the face of a harpy, more than a match for the cleverest of Turki debtors who may fall into his clutches. He had brought a good number of Bactrian, Arsacidian, and other Greek coins with him from Bokhara, – or had since been supplied with them by friends left behind there. Most of the silver pieces proved to be forgeries, and this, together with the big prices asked, prevented a business transaction.”
Materials:copper alloy
Technique:
Subjects:king/queen equestrian
Dimensions:Die-axis: 01 o’clock Diameter: 19 millimetres Weight: 3.41 grammes
Description:
Copper alloy coin. (whole)
IMG
Comments:The coins were purchased at Karghalik. Stein describes this in Ruins of Desert Cathay, p. 141 (quoted in Wang 2004, p. 248): “An imposing posse of Hindu money-lenders which received me some three miles from the town showed that the business of these sharp Shikarpuris flourished more than ever. Since 1901 their community had increased by some thirty percent of new arrivals… Among the Shikarpuris who subsequently in a solemn deputation came to pay their respects at my temporary quarters, there was one who had drifted to Karghalik from Bokhara some twenty years before. He was a queer-looking man with the face of a harpy, more than a match for the cleverest of Turki debtors who may fall into his clutches. He had brought a good number of Bactrian, Arsacidian, and other Greek coins with him from Bokhara, – or had since been supplied with them by friends left behind there. Most of the silver pieces proved to be forgeries, and this, together with the big prices asked, prevented a business transaction.”
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