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Post a coin minted before 1900 thats not a morgan dollar.
DickyBetz
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This forum has too many of the "look what i got from the mint" posts. A million of the same posts about when people are recieving their bullion modern crap. Post some REAL coins. No one cares if your order is in stock and reserved!
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<< <i>bullion modern crap >>
There's nothing wrong with people collecting the modern stuff so I don't totally sign on with the derogatory statement. I agree though that the forum has been swamped as of late with the modern mint products.
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Nice collage Cladiator
I think this is a real coin Greg
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PM Sent. You can read all about it in this thread.
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http://www.pcgs.com/SetRegistr...dset.aspx?s=68269&ac=1">Musky 1861 Mint Set
OK, just screwing around.
Here are some more.
Yes, my x-mas is now getting boring.
Buddha, The Enlightened One
Kushan Kingdom. Kanishka I. Circa 100-140 AD. AV Stater (7.93 gm). RAONANAO RAOKA NHRKI KORANO (Kanishka the Kushan, King of Kings); King standing to front, head turned left, holding standard in left hand, sacrificing with right over cylindrical altar, flames emanate from his shoulders / BODDO and Tamgha either side of Buddha standing to front and wearing samghati, a long pleated garment; the head is to front with eyes wide open and large moustache, ashnisha on crown of head, urna between eyebrows and surrounded by a double circular nimbus; behind the body, oval shaped aureole; left hand holds a pleat of the samghati, the right is raised in the gesture of renunciation, Abhaya Wudra.
References: Göbl 66 = BMC 16 (found at Ahin Posh, Afghanistan); Silk Road Coins, The Hirayama Collection, 51, same reverse die (cover coin). Third example extant, the Boston specimen, with this obverse die, having been lost.
In addition to the staters cited above, two other Buddha gold coins are known, both Kanishka I quarter staters: Göbl 73 = BN Paris and a specimen sold by Spink-Taisei Singapore Sale 9 (The Skanda collection), 1991, no. 18, published price realized at $140,000 (cover coin).
Buddhism is one of the great pan-Asian religions and philosophical movements which has also attracted adherents in the West. The religion is based on the teaching of Siddhartha Gautama, commonly known as The Buddha, who lived approximately 563 to 483 BC. The word Buddha¹, meaning awakened or enlightened one, is a title, not a proper name. Siddhartha Gautama was born a prince in the kingdom Sakyas situated on what is now the border area between India and Nepal. At the age of 29, desiring to know the path that leads to the ending of all impermanence and anguish, and desiring to ensure his permanent well-being, he renounced everything of the world, becoming a homeless ascetic, vowing to find the path to ultimate enlightenment and resolving to teach others what he had discovered about the four truths and the chain of causation to achieve Nirvana.
The Kushans were one branch of the Yue Chi, a loose confederation of Indo-European nomadic tribes who had been living in northwestern China until they were driven west by the Turko-Mongol Hiug-nu in about 170 BC. The Yue Chi reached Bactria (northwest Afghanistan and Tajikistan) in the second century BC and divided the country into five chiefdoms which by the first century BC were united under king Kujula. Gradually wresting control of the area from the Scytho-Parthians, the Yue Chi moved south into the northwest Indian region of Gandhara, now parts of Pakistan and Afghanistan, which had suffered many conquests and had been ruled by the Mauryans, Alexander the Great, his Indo-Greek successors, Scythians and Parthians. With its capital established near Kabul the Kushan Empire was soon acknowledged as one of the great powers, the others being China, Rome and Parthia. The Kushans adopted a form of the Greek alphabet and initially made coins directly copying Bactrian Greek and Parthian issues. Kujula's son Kadphises II was the first Indian ruler to strike gold coins reminiscent of the Roman aurei circulating along the caravan routes.
Under the rule of Kanishka, the third Kushan emperor, the Kushan empire reached its greatest extent, a territory ranging from the Aral Sea through areas that include present-day Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, and Pakistan into northern India as far east as Benares and as far south as Sanchi. The empire was administered from two capitals: Peshawar near the Khyber Pass, and Mathura in northern India. The discovery of the Rabatak inscription has helped confirm what Joe Cribb earlier proposed, i.e., that the Kanishka Era started between 100 AD and 120 AD. It was a period of great wealth marked by extensive mercantile activities, seagoing trade and commerce along the Silk Route to China.
A multi-ethnic society developed, tolerant of religious differences and marked by an eclectic culture vividly expressive in the visual arts. Kanishka¹s coinage displays a remarkable pantheon of deities of this cosmopolitan empire, drawing on the traditions of Iranian , Greco-Roman, and Indian cultures. This gold stater, the most remarkable coin in the series, bears one of the first known representations of Buddha.
description and photo borrowed from Barry Murphy.
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WOW... Bruce I like that 1799
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Buddha, The Enlightened One
Kushan Kingdom. Kanishka I. Circa 100-140 AD. AV Stater (7.93 gm). RAONANAO RAOKA NHRKI KORANO (Kanishka the Kushan, King of Kings); King standing to front, head turned left, holding standard in left hand, sacrificing with right over cylindrical altar, flames emanate from his shoulders / BODDO and Tamgha either side of Buddha standing to front and wearing samghati, a long pleated garment; the head is to front with eyes wide open and large moustache, ashnisha on crown of head, urna between eyebrows and surrounded by a double circular nimbus; behind the body, oval shaped aureole; left hand holds a pleat of the samghati, the right is raised in the gesture of renunciation, Abhaya Wudra.
References: Göbl 66 = BMC 16 (found at Ahin Posh, Afghanistan); Silk Road Coins, The Hirayama Collection, 51, same reverse die (cover coin). Third example extant, the Boston specimen, with this obverse die, having been lost.
In addition to the staters cited above, two other Buddha gold coins are known, both Kanishka I quarter staters: Göbl 73 = BN Paris and a specimen sold by Spink-Taisei Singapore Sale 9 (The Skanda collection), 1991, no. 18, published price realized at $140,000 (cover coin).
Buddhism is one of the great pan-Asian religions and philosophical movements which has also attracted adherents in the West. The religion is based on the teaching of Siddhartha Gautama, commonly known as The Buddha, who lived approximately 563 to 483 BC. The word Buddha¹, meaning awakened or enlightened one, is a title, not a proper name. Siddhartha Gautama was born a prince in the kingdom Sakyas situated on what is now the border area between India and Nepal. At the age of 29, desiring to know the path that leads to the ending of all impermanence and anguish, and desiring to ensure his permanent well-being, he renounced everything of the world, becoming a homeless ascetic, vowing to find the path to ultimate enlightenment and resolving to teach others what he had discovered about the four truths and the chain of causation to achieve Nirvana.
The Kushans were one branch of the Yue Chi, a loose confederation of Indo-European nomadic tribes who had been living in northwestern China until they were driven west by the Turko-Mongol Hiug-nu in about 170 BC. The Yue Chi reached Bactria (northwest Afghanistan and Tajikistan) in the second century BC and divided the country into five chiefdoms which by the first century BC were united under king Kujula. Gradually wresting control of the area from the Scytho-Parthians, the Yue Chi moved south into the northwest Indian region of Gandhara, now parts of Pakistan and Afghanistan, which had suffered many conquests and had been ruled by the Mauryans, Alexander the Great, his Indo-Greek successors, Scythians and Parthians. With its capital established near Kabul the Kushan Empire was soon acknowledged as one of the great powers, the others being China, Rome and Parthia. The Kushans adopted a form of the Greek alphabet and initially made coins directly copying Bactrian Greek and Parthian issues. Kujula's son Kadphises II was the first Indian ruler to strike gold coins reminiscent of the Roman aurei circulating along the caravan routes.
Under the rule of Kanishka, the third Kushan emperor, the Kushan empire reached its greatest extent, a territory ranging from the Aral Sea through areas that include present-day Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, and Pakistan into northern India as far east as Benares and as far south as Sanchi. The empire was administered from two capitals: Peshawar near the Khyber Pass, and Mathura in northern India. The discovery of the Rabatak inscription has helped confirm what Joe Cribb earlier proposed, i.e., that the Kanishka Era started between 100 AD and 120 AD. It was a period of great wealth marked by extensive mercantile activities, seagoing trade and craonanommerce along the Silk Route to China.
A multi-ethnic society developed, tolerant of religious differences and marked by an eclectic culture vividly expressive in the visual arts. Kanishka¹s coinage displays a remarkable pantheon of deities of this cosmopolitan empire, drawing on the traditions of Iranian , Greco-Roman, and Indian cultures. This gold stater, the most remarkable coin in the series, bears one of the first known representations of Buddha.
description and photo borrowed from Barry Murphy. >>
Really, really cool coin. I have never seen anything like it. Is that what you hear Buddhists chanting sometimes. (raonanaoa.......etc.)? Great history lesson on that coin.
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