Anyone wanna help identify these coins....??

Smittys

lordmarcovan

The silver one is ancient Parthian. That is about all I can help with. Some of the other designs look vaguely familiar but nothing I could pin down, without hours of head-scratching, which I'm not up to right now.

DesertRat

Some of those look to be Indian. Might try looking through here

Sapyx

They all seem to be from around the Iran/Afghanistan/Pakistan area, ranging from ancient to modern. Counting left to right, top to bottom:

#1: With that "dress", I'd say Kushan Empire (c.100-400 AD), or Kushan imitative. Not sure you can be more specific than that, in that condition.

#2: If you start reading the pre-1900 Krauses from start to finish, you come across coins like this pretty quick - they're from Afghanistan, one of the "leaf between two swords" types.

#3: Looks like a similar type to number 2.

#4: Parthian Empire, as LordM said. Looks an earlier type, sometime from 50 BC to 50 AD. I'd guess Orodes II (57-36 BC). Check this page for some close matches.

#5: Looks similar to #2 and #3, but this time it looks more like a leaf. It might be from further south, in India, such as Kashmir or the Sikh Empire, but the script on the other side physically resembles the inscriptions pictured in Krause for Afghanistan in the 1800's.

#6: No idea.

#7: Afghanistan again, this one does have a legible date: "1322", which if that's the ordinary Islamic calendar translates to 1903 AD. Looks like KM#956.1, a paisa from the Herat mint.

#8: Can't be sure, but it looks like a jital from the Early Islamic period, somewhere around 1000-1200 AD - the Ghaznavids or some such dynasty. If so, it's made of base silver (billon).

olmanjon

I will give you 50 cents apiece for them Smitty

Bailathacl

I like that Parthian piece. Josh/Civitas has a few on his website now.

lordmarcovan

<< <i> will give you 50 cents apiece for them Smitty >>


Cheapskate! I'll go 65 cents each!

olmanjon

Well Smitty --how much do you want? You got a couple of active bidders here