Ancient ID - 900ad India Bull & Horseman???

StrikeOutXXX

Went to a charity auction yesterday and won a grab bag of mixed things. This was in there, and the only thing on the 2x2 was:

"Bull & Horseman 900AD Ancient Bronze Coin From India".

Don't know who donated them, or if they knew for sure or were guessing, but if anyone could tell me for sure what this is, it would be appreciated.

Not sure which way is up, but here goes:




Thanks!
Jeff

lordmarcovan

When I was a YN in the early 1980s, Joel Anderson, always a source of interesting world coins, published an ad in Coins magazine, offering "3 (or maybe it was 5) attributed ancient world coins including silver for $5", or something like that. Needless to say, I paid my money and got some cool stuff for my five bucks (or ten bucks, whatever it was. Cheap).

One of them, as I can still recall, was a "Post Gupta Bull and Horseman coin" from ancient India. I don't remember much about how it looked except that it was fairly tiny and crude.

Using "post-gupta empire bull and horseman" as a keyword, I went a Googling, and this was the third page down (and by no means the only hit). Scroll down the page.