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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 7880041, member: 44316&quot;]Sasanian silver coins are broad and thin with, almost always, the head of the king right and a fire altar on the reverse. Here is the most common type that leaps out as different:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1358691[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>29 mm. 4.30 grams.</p><p>It has jugate busts on the left facing a smaller bust on the right.</p><p>The king is Barham II, also spelled Varhan II.</p><p><br /></p><p>His reign is interesting enough that I wrote a short web page on it:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/Sasanian/Bahram.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/Sasanian/Bahram.html" rel="nofollow">http://augustuscoins.com/ed/Sasanian/Bahram.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Rather than repeat it here, I encourage you to go to the page.</p><p><br /></p><p>Please show us some Sasanian coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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