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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1804650, member: 26302&quot;]Btw Anoob, Tabaristan never &quot;fell&quot; to the Arabs. They were a powerful parthian family who chose to support the arabs over&nbsp; the Sassanids. Khusro II really destroyed&nbsp; his parthian nobility support and that was the real cause of the arab conquest. As a favor, the arabs allowed this family to continue to strike their own coins in tabaristan for quite some time.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you like this period like I do, the decline and fall of the sassanian empire is a brilliant, must read book. It really clarified the entire situation for me.</p><p><br /></p><p>Btw, I agree Matt might of done better offering these to us and save ebay&nbsp; fees. I have twenty or so, but if they had been offered here a touch cheaper I probably still would have bought a few more. These come and go. Some hoards were found a decade ago, and they were everywhere then. These looked like nice ones though.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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