China, China 25-50 après J.-C. Very rare Sino-Kharoshti 6-zhu coin, Khotan, King Gurgamoya (c.25-50 AD)

Maharaja yidiraja gurgamayasa ("Maharaja King of Khotan Gurgamoya") (or similar), horse standing right // 六銖銭 Liu Zhu Qian ("6-zhu coin"). 21mm, 3.87 grams. For the type, see Joe Cribb, The Sino-Kharosthi Coins of Khotan, The Numismatic Chronicle, 144 (1984). 

This rare and obscure issue from Khotan (Hotan, located in modern Xinjiang) on the Silk Road was properly studied by Joe Cribb who published his findings in 1984. The name of the King given on these coins is Gurgamoa or Gurgamoya, who was probably the first of the Khotanese Kings to mint coins. The coins were bilingual, bearing Kharoshti and Chinese inscriptions, showing Silk Road's prominent connections to both the Indians and the Chinese. The coins were always poorly struck and crudely engraved, but remain very rare and difficult to find. A few examples in F+ condition recently sold at Album's auction for 1400-1600$.

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