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Message:: [QUOTE="Bob L., post: 3125931, member: 56976"]Pellinore, until recently the "ateliers" section of Parthika.fr was the best resource for identifying (placing) Parthian mint monograms.  I write "until recently" since as of late all of images, save one, on the page have disappeared.  Those images included lots of coins from different mints, with close-up's of their monograms from below the archer's bow. I intend to write to Alwin, the site owner, about the missing images.  Hopefully it's a temporary glitch. However the central pic on the page remains, and it's a good one, providing a map showing the location of the major mints of Parthia, as well as their associated monograms.  Bear in mind that in addition to the many mint locations that appear here, there were also traveling/itinerant mints - their monograms appear at lower right.  Also, it's important to keep in mind that, as Shore states it, "By the first century AD almost all (Parthian) drachms have the Ekbatana mint monogram" - no matter where they were minted.  That monogram became standardized.[ATTACH=full]796550[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]