Period:Unknown Production date:20thC
Materials:copper alloy
Technique:electroformed
Dimensions:Diameter: 26 millimetres Weight: 12.89 grammes
Description:
Coin; electrotype. Sino-Kharoshthi coin. (Awaiting full details).
IMG
![图片[1]-coin; electrotype BM-OR.7240-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/Miscellaneous objects/mid_01398044_001.jpg)
Comments:Ticket with coin reads ‘Electro[type] of coin discovered by Sir Douglas Forsyth. Num[ismatic] Chron[icle] 1879 p.274, cf. Indian Coins #38.’ Numismatic Chronicle 1880. Meeting of the Royal Numismatic Society, 20 Nov 1879: “Mr P. Gardner read a paper on some coins brought from Kashgar by Sir Douglas Forsyth. Of which, two were of iron, probably of local issue, one of them bore a name resembling Hermaeus, Greek king of Bactria, in Aryan letters, and on the reverse some apparently Chinese characters.”
Materials:copper alloy
Technique:electroformed
Dimensions:Diameter: 26 millimetres Weight: 12.89 grammes
Description:
Coin; electrotype. Sino-Kharoshthi coin. (Awaiting full details).
IMG
Comments:Ticket with coin reads ‘Electro[type] of coin discovered by Sir Douglas Forsyth. Num[ismatic] Chron[icle] 1879 p.274, cf. Indian Coins #38.’ Numismatic Chronicle 1880. Meeting of the Royal Numismatic Society, 20 Nov 1879: “Mr P. Gardner read a paper on some coins brought from Kashgar by Sir Douglas Forsyth. Of which, two were of iron, probably of local issue, one of them bore a name resembling Hermaeus, Greek king of Bactria, in Aryan letters, and on the reverse some apparently Chinese characters.”
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