My first Persian coin!

Rare yes, 6 nummi no. Those are marked by an S. Mine is definitely a follis, closest I've found so far. I will need to spend some time in the library.

 

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Here's one I picked up a year or so ago from a FAC free auction:

Silver-Drachm of Shapur III., 383-388 AD. (Sasanian)
Av. bust of king Shapur III. right
Rv. fire altar between two attendants; weight is 3.60gr., G�bl 126

 

Great stuff guys. I've never heard of the Sassanian 6 nummi coin before, definitely something I'll try to keep an eye out for.

 

It's not Sassanian but Byzantine and fairly common.

 

Read it wrong, thought it was implied there was both a normal Byzantine 6 nummi type (which I'm familiar with) and also an occupation version of it.

 

Any more relevant coins (Khosrau, Maurice, Heraclius, etc.) or info welcome!

 

Well Jango, if you're still asking for examples, then I'll try to look around for a few of my coin-stragglers ...

Big Mo-Tibs, AE Follis
582-602 AD




... oh, and here are a couple of cool Heraclius Overstrikes ...

HERACLIUS Overstruck on Justin I follis (AE29)
610-641 AD





HERACLIUS Overstruck on Anastasius follis (AE34)
622 AD



... nice big coins "in-hand"

 

Very nice, @stevex6. Sweet countermarks, and I've always loved the Maurice Antiochs - nice example. A darn sight better than the sorry excuses produced at Nicomedia:

 

Thanks, Sev-Alex ... but at least your Maurice example has a snout!

 

I 'heard' Heraclius.... (poor man's gold LOL).

 

I thought there are 6 and 3 nummi pieces, and this is my source: Robert Göbl's book about Sasanian numismatics. In the Xusro II table you may find the 12 nummi like this, and the 6 and 3 mentioned in the lowest field. Sorry it is in German, but Göbl says that there is a 6 nummi with letter S (BMC Byz. I/XXVII/1) and a 3 nummi with letter Gamma, that he knows from a private collection, but it hasn't been published at that moment (the book is from 1968).

 

Possibly I'm not very good at explaining things
This should help
http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=byzantine denominations
and from a post
https://www.cointalk.com/threads/byzantine-bronze-coinage-of-justin-i-and-justinian.288030/

 

GREAT write-up and coin Mr. @ValiantKnight !!! Well done, like your work.

I only have a couple Sassanians...


Persian Sassinian Ardashir III 628-629 CE AR Drachm 36mm 3.85g Zoroastrian Fire Alter Gobl II-1 yr 2 Delta RARE



Sassanian Shapur I 240-272 CE AE Tetradrachm 10.78g 27mm Ctesiphon mint phase 1a mural crown korymbos - fire altar type 2 SNS IIa1-1a

 

That Shapur I tetradrachm is very interesting and in good shape, with many details!

 

Thank you. I was attracted to this one because I do not see many broze issues from the Sassanids, and that it had good details. Everyone else posts AR, I thought I would get a bronze. Besides, he was the only one who captured a Roman Emperor!

 

That is indeed an impressive bronze, you don't see them very often, especially like that. And yes, Shapur is cool. My drachm sports my favourite Sassanid portrait:

 

Here is one of my three Sassanian coins....
AV Dinar ND 7.34g./ 22mm. Kabul Mint struck circa 379AD
Ardashir II 379-83AD

 

Good grief, what a coin. You are doing it again, panzerman. If I had the patience to buy only one coin a year - but no, that will never work.

 

Thanks! I bought that coin end of 2015/ I was broke! I had spent all of my "coin $" on 25 AV coins that year. So when the auction was live, I could not resist to bid on it. Long story short....I phoned up a collector friend in Toronto, and asked him if he could come over and buy some butterflies. He ended up buying 15K worth, so I could pay for the coin, plus has 3K left over for upcoming auctions Good to have my butterfly/moth collection in reserve, when I get into financial trouble
John

 

Wow!