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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bob L., post: 8228615, member: 56976&quot;]Congrats. There is no better pedigree than &quot;Ex-Sellwood Collection&quot; when it comes to collecting Parthians.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>It doesn&#039;t. Since the Fars fractions were, it seems, not official imperial issues of Parthia-proper, SNP excludes them. Here&#039;s an excerpt from the KOINON article that addresses the issue:</p><p>&quot;The first published volume of the Sylloge Nummorum Parthicorum (Volume 7, from 2012) excluded the coins from the Fars hoard. The omission is glaring considering the fact that the hoard included diobols attributed by Sellwood and others to four of the kings who reigned during the span covered by this inaugural SNP volume. Author Fabrizio Sinisi (presumably with the endorsement of editors Michael Alram, Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis, and Daryoosh Akbarzadeh) explained, in his introduction, that he considers the Fars fractions to be of ‘uncertain attribution’ and thus he opted not to affirm Sellwood&#039;s conclusions by cataloging them. Instead, SNP 7 includes only coins from the Ecbatana, Seleucia, Mithradatkart, and (possibly) Rhagae mints, none of which produced AR fractions during the reigns of these kings. As far as Sinisi is concerned, ‘with regard to the silver series…no fractions of the drachm (are) attested (to) after Orodes II.’&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This is an interesting project. In his 1989 article, Sellwood speculated that there were only about 15 extant examples of each, type 1 and type 2. I suspect his estimate is too low, based as it was on earlier appearances of these coins on the market. I&#039;ll be curious to see what you discover. Sellwood&#039;s <i>New Parthian Types</i> article was written about six years after the distribution of the first round of these coins. As Michael Alram stated in 1987 (in his essay <i>Die Vorbildwirkung Eer Arsakidischen Münzprägung</i>), the initial Fars fractions to hit the market, in Europe of autumn 1984, were part of a 1981 find. As far as I know, the original find and the initial distribution of the Fars fractions were undocumented. It&#039;s unclear whether every example we see across sales listings since then is from that single find, or whether more have since been found.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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