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ID number: BIRBI-WH0054 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: The Bactrian Yabghu Denomination: Drachm Place made: Asia: Afghanistan, Zabulistan Culture: Western Turkic Date made: c.720s. Metal: Silver Diameter (cm): 3.5 Weight (g): 3.88 Axis (degrees): 315.00 Provenance: Whitting 7041, A. H. Baldwin, 26th July 1969. |
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Description: Obverse: Bust in profile view right, moustache; wearing a crown with two crescents attached to diadem, a pair of wings and a buffalo's head on top; single pellet border; outside border at 90, 180 and 270 degrees a crescent with tamgha. Reverse: Fire altar, two attendants.
Inscriptions: Obverse: APS MRPKA (Corruption of Napki Malka) Reverse: ZPLIST. (Zabulistan, legend corrupted) Illegible year.
Bibliography: Vondrovec (2014) Typ.266., pp.633.
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