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| India. Kunindas. Amoghabhuti AR Drachm |
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Attribution: MAC 4440-4442
Date: 50 BC-AD 50
Obverse: Deer standing right, the goddess Lakshmi before, holding lotus
Reverse: Various symbols: six-arched hill, tree in railing, triangle-headed standard, Swastika, Nandipada with Kharoshthi legend below
Size: 18.78mm
Weight: 2.41 grams
Rarity:  6
Description: VF. From the Bill Spengler collection.
William “Bill” F Spengler (1923-2005) served as a Foreign Service Officer in Thailand, Norway, Pakistan and Afghanistan. During WWII, he served as a code breaker in the U.S. Army, joined the Department of State in 1950 and retired as Consul General in Lahore, Pakistan in 1976. In Kabul in the 1960s, he found interest in the ancient coins from the region and became one of the foremost authorities on the peoples who had passed through the area through the centuries. This interest in numismatics and history influenced the rest of his life. He published numerous articles, contributed and edited catalogs on world coins and co-authored two books on the Turkomans.
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