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<p>[QUOTE="Pellinore, post: 4688238, member: 74834"]Interesting. Yes, those broad rims are virtually asking for scribbling. I can't read it, but you could try putting it on Zeno or World of Coins, where there are many numismatists with great knowledge of Oriental coinage.</p><p><br /></p><p>I only have a broad-rimmed Sasanian drachm with Arabic inscriptions (and a nice counterstamp).</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1153138[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1153139[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Sasanids. AR drachm Xusro II (590-627). Obv. Crowned head t.r. Countermark on 2 o’clock 11 K (Göbl <i>Huns</i>): bird or senmurv. Rev. Fire altar with attendants. Arab graffiti on the right lower rim. Year 35, mint GD (= Gay near Ispahan). 28 mm, 2.96 gr. Countermark 11-K (Göbl Hunnen, description p. 180), a bird or Senmurv, on obverse 2 o'clock. According to Göbl, this coin is from 685 AD or later. Graffiti on reverse 4 o'clock. Some silver of the surface scooped away on 7 o'clock.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Pellinore, post: 4688238, member: 74834"]Interesting. Yes, those broad rims are virtually asking for scribbling. I can't read it, but you could try putting it on Zeno or World of Coins, where there are many numismatists with great knowledge of Oriental coinage. I only have a broad-rimmed Sasanian drachm with Arabic inscriptions (and a nice counterstamp). [ATTACH=full]1153138[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1153139[/ATTACH] Sasanids. AR drachm Xusro II (590-627). Obv. Crowned head t.r. Countermark on 2 o’clock 11 K (Göbl [I]Huns[/I]): bird or senmurv. Rev. Fire altar with attendants. Arab graffiti on the right lower rim. Year 35, mint GD (= Gay near Ispahan). 28 mm, 2.96 gr. Countermark 11-K (Göbl Hunnen, description p. 180), a bird or Senmurv, on obverse 2 o'clock. According to Göbl, this coin is from 685 AD or later. Graffiti on reverse 4 o'clock. Some silver of the surface scooped away on 7 o'clock.[/QUOTE]
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