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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-WH0053 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Anonymous Denomination: Drachm Culture: Kidarite Date made: c.Fifth Century. Metal: Silver Diameter (cm): 2.8 Weight (g): 3.76 Axis (degrees): 90.00 Provenance: Whitting 5590, July 1967, ex. Dr.R. Whitehead. |
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Description: Obverse: Bust in three-quarter frontal view right, moustache; wearing a crown with a globe on a crescent, flanked by broad ribbons on top, in the centre a palmette, left and right a wing [imitating Vahram IV]4; horizontally-pleated ribbons emerge from the hair bales on the shoulders; single pellet border. Reverse: Fire altar, two attendants. Inscriptions: Obverse: No legend. Reverse [In Brahmi] BuDdhaMi (He who has Buddha as friend). Bibliography: Vondrovec (2014) Typ.18., pp.68.
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| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
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