Just won this one and am excited. Totally outside my
area of collecting, except it falls into the fact I have very wide interests. I did a tour in Afghanistan and watching the botched withdrawal has triggered a lot of memories and emotions. It was where I bought my first tourist
fake ancient coin that the
fine folks in the
Forum here explained was a
cast tourist
fake. Who knew there would be tourist
fakes in a war zone. As an aside, I bought my first real
ancient coins here at
Forum. This
medieval coin from Kabul and a beautiful coin on top of that. I
had to have it, the ultimate impulse buy.
LOCAL ISSUES, Kabul. Shahis (Shahiyas). Kamaluka “Khudarayaka”. Circa 895-921. AR Jital (19mm, 2.97 g, 6h). śri khudarayaka in Nagari, recumbent zebu to left with symbol on rump; to left,
star above pellet above crescent / Horseman right, holding banner; ma in Nagari to left; ’adl in Arabic to right. Tye 23.
Toned, areas of flat strike. VF. From the Archytas
Collection.
Anyway, just wanted to share this.
Virgil
