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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 7852439, member: 19463&quot;]Your post sent me to look at my coins of Khusru I only to find that one I bought in 2018 was the same as one I bought in 2010 down to mint and year even though they were said to be different by the two different sellers.&nbsp; Except, perhaps, to specialists, many Sasanian drachms are made desirable or not by strike more than wear.&nbsp; There is also the matter of style which is quite different for most of the many mints.&nbsp; Between the two, it is often hard to see the reverse figures clearly but what I tend to seek are coins with mints and dates I think I can read.&nbsp; I still don&#039;t know whether my coins are Meshan or Mirbud year 13 but one of them is going into my disposal pile.&nbsp; Not long ago I found a similar duplication and gave away the spare.&nbsp; I&#039;m not sure I have enough brain cells left to collect Sasanian by mint.&nbsp; Yours is a rather nice example with weaknesses in acceptable places.&nbsp; Have you identified it yet?&nbsp; I assume you know about this site:</p><p><a href="http://grifterrec.rasmir.com/sasania/sasanian.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://grifterrec.rasmir.com/sasania/sasanian.html" rel="nofollow">http://grifterrec.rasmir.com/sasania/sasanian.html</a></p><p><a href="http://grifterrec.rasmir.com/sasania/sas_khuI_1.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://grifterrec.rasmir.com/sasania/sas_khuI_1.html" rel="nofollow">http://grifterrec.rasmir.com/sasania/sas_khuI_1.html</a>&nbsp; (3 pages)</p><p><a href="http://grifterrec.rasmir.com/sasania/sas_mint/sas_mint_table.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://grifterrec.rasmir.com/sasania/sas_mint/sas_mint_table.html" rel="nofollow">http://grifterrec.rasmir.com/sasania/sas_mint/sas_mint_table.html</a></p><p><a href="http://grifterrec.rasmir.com/sasania/sas_mint/dp/sas_date_table.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://grifterrec.rasmir.com/sasania/sas_mint/dp/sas_date_table.html" rel="nofollow">http://grifterrec.rasmir.com/sasania/sas_mint/dp/sas_date_table.html</a></p><p>Hint: The language was written right to left BUT they expressed, for example, 47 as &#039;seven and forty&#039; so the dates get doubly confusing. </p><p>All those pages and I still can&#039;t read all my coins (or yours) with any certainty.&nbsp; I do wish they had used something easy like Greek!&nbsp; At least the Greeks printed instead of using cursive. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1352433[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1352434[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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