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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1787496, member: 19463&quot;]<font size="3">I read the extensive write ups like the one that came with this wonderful coin and ask just what the coin did to be so abused. Sellwood 10.4 should have an N in exergue which Sellwood attributes to Nisa mint. How someone saw this as 10.4 escapes me. Shore 16 needs the OP in exergue which Shore read as a Seleucid date. I don&#039;t see that here either. I don&#039;t know enough about these to understand what prevents the coin from being a standard blank exergue Sellwood 10.1 from </font><font size="3">Hekatompylos</font><font size="3">. When we go beyond even just the base number Sellwood 10, we encounter small points that might get hard to read on less than mint state coins. When dealing with coins with so many variations we have to ask if Sellwood or Shore would have felt obligated to give the coin in question a different sub number had they seen it. </font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font size="3">I only have two related coins. My 10 series is a fourree which is extremely unusual in Parthian coins (go on a search for Parthian fourrees and tell me how many you find). I&#039;d call it a Sellwood 10.1 but I have no idea if it is an ancient fake with good style or something really wild (my preference) like an official coin overstruck on a reused flan, probably a Roman denarius, which they did not realize was plated. [ATTACH=full]287615[/ATTACH]</font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font size="3">The other coin is a Sellwood 9.1 or similar. These have a two line legend omitting the top line &#039;Great&#039;. I do not see a mintmark in exergue so I&#039;ll go for the basic Hekatompylos but some students with better feelings for style distinctions may choose to differ. Sellwood is an old book and there has certainly been a lot of study on these since 1980. I have not read the works who take some of these coins away from Mithradates and point out that some belong to<span style="color: #5f5e5b"><span style="color: #000000">his father. I have not seen enough of these to claim any knowledge on them. I have owned these coins for 25 and 20 years respectively. For most of that time I specialized in other things but I guarantee you that Parthians were easier to find in my price bracket before Fred Shore wrote his book and attracted so many people to what I used to consider neat items that I could afford.[ATTACH=full]287614[/ATTACH] </span></span></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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