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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3749412, member: 19463"]I have noting o my theories presented in the links above. When I wrote my page, the number of Parthian fourrees seen was much lower than now. The variations seen in all the links BobL listed just convinces me more than ever that you can not make one blanket statement to cover all coins. I still believe my coin was overstruck on a fourree and have no way of knowing whether the striker knew that the coin was fourree or whether he was given a bucket of denarii and told to convert them to local currency. If could prove that this was a fact for my coin (and I can't) it would prove absolutely nothing about any of another dozen plated Parthian coins made in different times under different circumstances. Stolen dies? The idea does nothing for me but I can't prove anything wrong with the scanty evidence that exists. If we had dozens of specimens from the same time and place all struck from the same dies or dies that appear similar in style I might be more inclined to see a pattern but the material simply is not there. Certainly some fourrees were struck with unofficial or barbarous dies. Some appear possibly official especially when we allow for some mints being quite different from others. We do not need supposed final words based on evidence from our poor understanding of Parthian coins, their dozen or so mints and political situations lost to time. We can only accept the fact that what we know and what we wish we knew may not always coincide.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3749412, member: 19463"]I have noting o my theories presented in the links above. When I wrote my page, the number of Parthian fourrees seen was much lower than now. The variations seen in all the links BobL listed just convinces me more than ever that you can not make one blanket statement to cover all coins. I still believe my coin was overstruck on a fourree and have no way of knowing whether the striker knew that the coin was fourree or whether he was given a bucket of denarii and told to convert them to local currency. If could prove that this was a fact for my coin (and I can't) it would prove absolutely nothing about any of another dozen plated Parthian coins made in different times under different circumstances. Stolen dies? The idea does nothing for me but I can't prove anything wrong with the scanty evidence that exists. If we had dozens of specimens from the same time and place all struck from the same dies or dies that appear similar in style I might be more inclined to see a pattern but the material simply is not there. Certainly some fourrees were struck with unofficial or barbarous dies. Some appear possibly official especially when we allow for some mints being quite different from others. We do not need supposed final words based on evidence from our poor understanding of Parthian coins, their dozen or so mints and political situations lost to time. We can only accept the fact that what we know and what we wish we knew may not always coincide.[/QUOTE]
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