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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1706392, member: 19463&quot;]It has been a couple months since I got a set of &#039;12 different&#039; coins of Elymais from the back of a Frank Robinson list.&nbsp; After a very little study of the subject I could accept 11 of them as different with the 12th being rather close to one of the others.&nbsp; For years I have owned the skinny little book on Elymais by deMorgan but was told that it was out of date so I bought the new Catalogue of Elymaean Coinage by P.A. van&#039;t Haaff.&nbsp; Never have I owned a book requiring more skills in &#039;flyspecking&#039; minor differences to attribute coins less certainly.&nbsp; In a few cases, my best efforts with van&#039;t Haaff led to ID to a different ruler than with deMorgan but usually they agreed at least a little bit.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I seek contact with others having interest in these coins (purchasers of Robinson lots or old timers) who would b willing to discuss or trade tips in reading the coins and understanding why one dot seems significant and another does not.&nbsp;&nbsp; I post this here to see if there is anyone here of any level interest (although owning van&#039;t Haaff would seem helpful).&nbsp;&nbsp; While I&#039;d love an expert to hold my hand here, I&#039;d be happy to have someone else trying to begin a path to understanding these coins.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m starting just by taking a random coin and seeing what I can find.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH]261293.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Comparing the coin to plates in deMorgan, I settled on Plate III,5 a coin of Phraates.&nbsp; Working similarly in van&#039;t Haaff, I settled on Orodes II Type 13.3 subtype 2-2a possibly example d.&nbsp; The hat has a dot rather more like the example of subtype 2-1a d but my coin has a single top bar on the anchor in place of the double required by that ID.&nbsp;&nbsp; These conflicts make me suspect I&#039;m missing something.&nbsp; I gather that van&#039;t Haaff discounted the reverses altogether in separating these dot reversed coins so all the ID points are on the obverse.&nbsp; Of my 12 coins, this is the one with the worst reverse but I am reading it as nothing but dots rather than a poor specimen of a more complex design.</p><p><br /></p><p>Is anyone interested here?&nbsp; I have 11 more of these (some IDed easily IMHO - some not).&nbsp; Should I continue this thread here or find another venue?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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