[ATTACH] Parthian Kingdom. Billon drachm (2.98 g, 18 mm). Nisa mint. Artabanos IV (c.10- 38 CE). Obverse: Bust left, crescent and star...
[ATTACH] Arab-Sasanian, Eastern Sistan series. AR drachm (3.48 g, 31 mm). No date visible, c. late 8th century CE. Obverse: Imitation of...
My gut instinct on the portrait is Antoninus Pius, but of course I could be wrong. Can you get a clearer photo of what's left of the obverse legends?
Pretty sure the host coin is a Sasanian-imitative, maybe one of the Hunnic tribes. Agreed that the countermark head does resemble a Parthian,...
[ATTACH] Sasanian Persian Kingdom. AR drachm 30 mm, 3.93 g). Khusro I (531-579), Year 46. Mintmark BH. Obverse: Bust of king right, name...
1. Yes, almost all Sasanian coins have probably been cleaned since being discovered. (I have only rarely seen uncleaned Sasanian coins for sale.)...
[ATTACH] Arab-Sasanian. Abdallah ibn Amir (c. 661-664 CE), dated 43 AH (frozen date). AR drachm (3.75 g, 31 mm). Obverse: Copy of Sasanian...
Definitely some sort of modern fantasy, very loosely based on Roman coins. The legend on the reverse is imitating a common form of Roman reverse...
[ATTACH] Sasanian Kingdom. Treasury mint. Khusro III (c.631-2 CE), Year 2. AR drachm (3.47 g, 29 mm). Obverse: Beardless bust of king left,...
[ATTACH] Parthian Kingdom. AE (16 mm, 3.02 g). Arsakes II (Artabanos I) (c. 211- 185 BCE). Obverse: Beardless head of king left, wearing...
A good place to start: fanam
Unfortunately, the Pahlavi script, to use the technical term, sucks. As you've already discovered, knowledge of modern Farsi doesn't really help,...
Glad you're continuing in this rewarding study. So: The crown, borders, etc. could fit either Khusro I or Hormazd IV. (There are subtle...
[ATTACH] Ghaznavids. AR dirham (3.0 g, 19 mm). Mahmudpur (Lahore) mint. Mahmud (998-1030 CE), dated AH 419 (1028 CE). Obverse: Inscriptions...
Your coin is from Hormazd IV (579-590 CE), you can read his name in front of his face. Mintmark on the reverse is HL (Herat, a city that is in...
I have been told that, for older books that may be fragile, you should store them flat on the shelf instead of upright. Keeping books upright in...
Well, my own numismatic library is threadbare by comparison, but here's a view of the single shelf it occupies: [ATTACH] And we can look at each...
Two coins won at Frank Robinson's latest auction, both Italian states issues: Emilia (Tuscany) 1860 1 lira, and Sardinia 1794 20 soldi. The 1860...
I found this in the laundry room of my apartment building in 2018; presumably, it fell out of someone's pants pocket in the washing machine. It's...
I just wanted to let everyone know that I definitely do not have an addiction to copper coins. Nope, not me. The beautiful brown toning, or the...
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