Second coin hoard from Mir Zakah

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The second Mir Zakah coin hoard is the largest coin treasure ever found in the world. It was discovered by chance in 1992 near the village of Mir Zakah (approx. 53 km northeast of Gardez , Afghanistan ) and, according to later investigations, contained approx. Three to four tons of gold, silver and bronze coins. In total it will have been around 500,000 coins. Around two hundred kilograms of gold and silver objects such as bowls and figures were also found. Most of the coins have been brought to Switzerland for sale. The whereabouts of this scientifically important find is largely unknown and it is feared that many coins were melted down. 418 coins ended up in the Aman-Ur-Rahman collection; a few were bought by the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford . According to the little information available, the hoard consisted of early Indian, Greek, Greco-Bactrian , Indo-Greek , Indo-Scythian , Indo-Parthian and Kushan coins . Noteworthy is the coin of an otherwise not attested king Nasten and the only previously known gold coin that was made during Alexander the great's lifetime .

literature

  • O. Bopearachchi, AU Rahman: Pre-Kushana Coins from Pakistan , Islamabad 1995, pp. 227-228

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