Posted on 12/04/2023 5:48:29 AM PST by SunkenCiv
Sheikh Javed Sindhi, who was engaged in research at the site, said that previously, 4,348 copper coins were excavated by R.D. Banerji, Sir John Marshall, and Mackay from 1922 to 1931. These coins belonged to the Kushan Period dating back to the 2 to 5 Century AD, he said...
Rustam Bhutto, in-charge of the soil and water testing laboratory, said the treatment process for separating the amalgamated coins would take at least a month to make the figures and language on coins visible.
Ali Haidar Gadhi, senior conservationist at said that Mr Banerji discovered nearly 2,000 coins, 338 of which were of the period of Kushan ruler Vasudeva-1 with standing royal figure on obverse and Shiva on the reverse and the bulk comprising 1,823 un-inscribed cast copper coins...
The Kushans existed from around the 1st century CE to the 3rd century CE and played a significant role in connecting various regions through trade, diplomacy, and cultural exchange.
The first Kushan ruler was Kujula Kadphises... Numismatic evidence shows that Kujula Kadphises continued to imitate posthumous types of coinage of the last Indo-Greek ruler in central Afghanistan. Other copper coins issued by Kujula Kadphises copy the royal portrait on the obverse from gold coins of the Roman emperor Augustus (31 BCE – 14 CE). The image of the seated Roman emperor is transformed into a Kushan ruler, who is identified as Kujula Kadphises in Greek and Kharosthi legends...
While evidence from coins and inscriptions at Rabatak and Surkh Kotal clearly shows that the Kushans maintained Iranian religious beliefs and practices, other inscriptions show that Kushan officials under Kaniska and his successors patronized Buddhists. The fire altar on previously discovered coins has Iranian influences.
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Actually the Iranians always called themselves Iranians and their country Iranshahr - right from Median times around 700 BC.
It is derived from “Aryan” i.e. the land of the Aryans. North Indians also called their land the land of the Aryans.
And note - “Aryan” means exclusively Indo-Iranians.
That’s why JRR Tolkien, when asked by a German if he was an Aryan wrote that “I have no Iranian, north Indian or gypsy ancestry, as far as I know”..
Germans aren’t “Aryans”, but a different branch of the Indo-European peoples. In fact the Poles, Russians and Ukrainians have more “Aryan” ancestry as the Scythi and Sarmatians roamed and at times ruled in those lands.
Gott in Himmel!!!
How do they know there isn’t some fat Krugerrands in the middle?
Interesting, thanks for the lesson.
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