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<p>[QUOTE="Bob L., post: 1793675, member: 56976"]<font face="Calibri">Great acquisitions, Doug. The Mithra, which is gorgeous, looks to be a Sellwood 24.10/Shore 70. Yep, mint would be Ecbatana for that one. The reattribution of Gotarzes to Sinatruces was, as you probably know, posited by Dr. G.R.F. Assar some years back. (Sellwood actually had these attributed to Sinatruces in the first edition of his book; he revised it to Gotarzes in the 1980 edition...many collectors/dealers have recently returned to Sellwood's original attribution for the type 33's) </font><font face="Calibri">For my own collection I still mostly keep to Sellwood's 1980 attributions. I too was lucky enough to add a nice Parthian to my collection this week, a Vologases IV tetradrachm: </font><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-102420" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-102420" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-102420</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bob L., post: 1793675, member: 56976"][FONT=Calibri]Great acquisitions, Doug. The Mithra, which is gorgeous, looks to be a Sellwood 24.10/Shore 70. Yep, mint would be Ecbatana for that one. The reattribution of Gotarzes to Sinatruces was, as you probably know, posited by Dr. G.R.F. Assar some years back. (Sellwood actually had these attributed to Sinatruces in the first edition of his book; he revised it to Gotarzes in the 1980 edition...many collectors/dealers have recently returned to Sellwood's original attribution for the type 33's) [/FONT][FONT=Calibri]For my own collection I still mostly keep to Sellwood's 1980 attributions. I too was lucky enough to add a nice Parthian to my collection this week, a Vologases IV tetradrachm: [/FONT][url]http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-102420[/url][/QUOTE]
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