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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 4553892, member: 19463&quot;]There are a very few examples of a language other than Greek on Parthian coins but it is limited to the name of the king on the top line while, in the Greek legends, he is only referred to as Arsakes.&nbsp; Traditional texts refer to the legends on these coins as gibberish Greek.&nbsp; I would not be capable of telling gibberish from a completely correct Parthian script so I can not comment on what the rest of those legends are.&nbsp; The ID&#039;s given below were the best I could do when I got the coins and may not reflect the latest updates in works I have not seen in languages I do not read.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Mithradates IV</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1127585[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Osroes II</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1127587[/ATTACH] </p><p>Osroes II</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1127588[/ATTACH] </p><p>Vologases VI</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1127589[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I learned a lot from Sear and recommend it until someone else writes something better.&nbsp; I would buy all three volumes when you can.&nbsp; Again, not the way I would have done it but..., Sear has the AD portion of Parthian in his Greek Imperial volume but the earlier period in the Greek volume II.&nbsp; I hope you will also get interested in the Western Greek coins so would not regret having volume I.&nbsp; Sear has only a few coins from each issuing authority but covers many you will see most often.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>You may be confused but not as badly as the author of that quote. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I like that book, too.&nbsp; Paul Rynearson was once one of my regular sources for coins but I do not know what happened along the way.&nbsp; Some dealers stopped sending lists; some started selling online; some got out of the business.&nbsp; I never kept up. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Sell things you consider worthless and that you will never again want.&nbsp; I made a mistake selling my BMCRE volume V for $10 when I sold my coins in 1974 to finance my wife quitting work for the birth of our daughter.&nbsp; I would have been better off eating less and keeping those items. </p><p><br /></p><p>I also suggest you become familiar with the site on Asian coins by the late Tom Mallon.&nbsp; When he died the idea of free information on the coins he loved to a giant step back.&nbsp; We owe great thanks to the people who keep his site from being a dead link even if it will never be updated.</p><p><a href="http://grifterrec.rasmir.com/coins.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://grifterrec.rasmir.com/coins.html" rel="nofollow">http://grifterrec.rasmir.com/coins.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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