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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-WH0055 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Tegin Denomination: Drachm Culture: Western Turkic Date made: c.600 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.9 Weight (g): 3.31 Axis (degrees): 90.00 Provenance: Whitting unnumbered. Ex. Dr.R. B. Whitehead collections, 1922. |
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Description: Obverse: Bust in profile view right; wearing crown with two tridents mounted at the diadem, large crescent with pellet on top, two wings left and right; two ribbons emerge from left wing, two from right wing; two ribbons attached at neckline. Reverse: Fire altar, two attendants with wings and bent legs. Inscriptions: Obverse: [In Bactrian] σρι τογινο þαυο (His Perfection, Tegin, King). Reverse: [In Pahlavi] YST (Divine) Ab (Water) [In Brahmi] sriya deva (Made God by Sri?) Pattasri (Perfection through the royal fillet?) Bibliography: Vondrovec (2014) Typ.206., pp.648.
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2 Related People | |
| Tegin Turkic | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
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