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<p>[QUOTE="kevin McGonigal, post: 4630368, member: 72790"]I just wondered if making plated coins was something as common among the Persians as among the Greeks and Romans. I don't recall either these sigloi or Parthian drachmas or the Sassanian pieces of those Persians being nearly as common as Greek and Roman plated coins. My guess on the Sassanian drachmas is that they are so thin that plating them over such a large area would require so much silver as to make it impractical (unprofitable) to do them as plated coins. Bottom line is that I have not encountered nearly as many plated coins of any Persian dynasty's coinage as Greek or Roman and wondered if they just didn't do that much of it. Now, I expect a blizzard of Persian fourees to appear below within an hour or two demonstrating how narrow my knowledge of Persian coinage is.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="kevin McGonigal, post: 4630368, member: 72790"]I just wondered if making plated coins was something as common among the Persians as among the Greeks and Romans. I don't recall either these sigloi or Parthian drachmas or the Sassanian pieces of those Persians being nearly as common as Greek and Roman plated coins. My guess on the Sassanian drachmas is that they are so thin that plating them over such a large area would require so much silver as to make it impractical (unprofitable) to do them as plated coins. Bottom line is that I have not encountered nearly as many plated coins of any Persian dynasty's coinage as Greek or Roman and wondered if they just didn't do that much of it. Now, I expect a blizzard of Persian fourees to appear below within an hour or two demonstrating how narrow my knowledge of Persian coinage is.[/QUOTE]
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