Jeeze, TIF I forgot you were so big on The Wise. All of these are lovely coins.
They did strike these just before and after the Arab conquest of the area. I must disagree with you on not being derivative of Sassanian coinage....
Krispy, thank you. I posted some of my coins to your thread.
At this point in history one can appreciate anything with a face an legend. Wonderful write up.
After that it gets a little hairy... Bukhara In the name of Abbasid Caliph Al-Mahdi [ATTACH]
Varhran VI [ATTACH] Shapur II [ATTACH] Khusro II in the Byzantine Style Alexandria Mint. [ATTACH] Ardashir III [ATTACH] Yazdegard III [ATTACH]...
Peroz I [ATTACH] Khusro I [ATTACH] Kavadh I [ATTACH] Hormizd IV Hun / Hephthalite Imitation (?) [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Ardashir I in the Parthian Style [ATTACH] Ardashir I in the Sassanian Style [ATTACH] The Great Shapur I [ATTACH] Varhran II Family Portrait...
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