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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Parthicus, post: 5001308, member: 81887&quot;]Good question!&nbsp; First, let me say that I don&#039;t yet have Gyselen&#039;s book, I have ordered a copy and it should arrive soon.&nbsp; (Yes, I know- buy the book before the coin.&nbsp; So far I&#039;ve been cataloguing Arab-Sasanian coins based on the text-only descriptions in Album, which worked for a while but I think it&#039;s time for me to get more serious about it.)&nbsp; My current understanding is that the OP coin obverse is not actually part of the main Arab-Sasanian bronze series, which as I mentioned in the first post seems to have ended around 720 AD and been replaced by &quot;post-reform&quot; bronzes.&nbsp; Of course, early post-reform bronzes feature various pictorial types, including animals, so my current guess is that this was a novel design issued (for whatever reason) independently of earlier designs.&nbsp; (It seems unlikely to me that an old obverse die would still be around, ready for use, after three decades.) This is just my speculation, and if I learn otherwise from Gyselen&#039;s book I will be happy to update this thread.</p><p><br /></p><p>Arab-Sasanian bronze coins are definitely scarce, and high-grade specimens rare.&nbsp; It&#039;s definitely a niche area of collecting.&nbsp; I&#039;ve managed to find a couple of nice pieces over the years; I&#039;ve shared these before, but this is a good place to repost them:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1200544[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1200545[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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