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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bob L., post: 3276904, member: 56976&quot;]I feel compelled to add to this thread based on a coin just spotted. The obverse picture at left, below, is from a major, well respected auction house&#039;s current listing. The coin is a sadly-brutalized very rare variant of a Sellwood 48.14 diobol of the Parthian King Orodes II.&nbsp; (One of possibly only five known specimens with a reverse Mithradatkart mint monogram)&nbsp; The listing contains no mention of the rarity based on the mint (in fact that listing states, erroneously, that Ekbatana is the mint) - and, much more disturbing, no mention of the abuse the coin has been subjected to.</p><p><br /></p><p>For comparison I show it, below, next to one from my collection. As hard as this may be to believe, I think these may be from the same obverse die.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]865536[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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