Axumite Gold Coin

Obverse and Reverse of gold coin of pre-Christian king Ousanas (about AD 320)
Diameter 17 mm. Found in India and is, like most Aksumite coins found there, pierced.

Photo - © Vincent West

First Published in News File Summer 2007

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