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...
[ATTACH] Arab-Byzantine. No date, struck c.73-78 AH (693-697 CE). Amman mint. Obverse: Standing Caliph, sheathed sword slung over left side,...
[ATTACH] Parthian Kingdom. AR drachm (20 mm, 3.51 g). Laodicea mint. Orodes II (57-38 BCE) . Obverse: Diademed bust of king left, crescent...
Looks OK to me. Your coin is Hartill 16.407 or 16.408 (depending on whether it's large or thin lines on the characters- I think yours is thin and...
Would be interested to see these, but definitely a modern concoction targeting tourists. Most Indigenous American societies did not have...
Assar's argument against Parthamaspates as the issuer of S. 81 coins is as follows: Parthamaspates had influence only in and around Ctesiphon...
Thanks for the link to your very thorough webpage. I also collect coins showing Rome's conflicts with Persia, though I'm primarily an "Eastern"...
The inscription on the obverse of the second coin looks more like [DN] HONORIVS PF AVG, which would make it Honorius, not Theodosius II. Not sure...
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