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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1252122, member: 19463&quot;]I fail to understand several things about this issue but leading the way is the connection to Phromo Kesaro.&nbsp; The reverse c/m (Baktrian or Greek?) seems to read ΦOPO rather than ΦPOPO.&nbsp; Many specimens are weak on this mark but I&#039;ll add here one that seems clear:</p><p>[ATTACH]134811.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>While not really related to this coin, a similar one made my latest page </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/gadpaisa.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/gadpaisa.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/gadpaisa.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>discussing a series on imitative coins that are several steps farther removed from the Sasanian originals.&nbsp; We could ask the question when a copy becomes far enough removed from the original that it stops being a copy and becomes a type of its own.&nbsp; The Hephthalite coin shown by stainless maintains the mintmark and date of the original long after those were current so I&#039;d call the issue imitative.&nbsp; I have not seen one without the two c/m&#039;s but the one on my page shows the third c/m.&nbsp; I have no good feeling about the when, where and why of any of these marks.&nbsp;&nbsp; It seems likely that the coins relate in some way to tribute payments like the ones made following the capture of Peroz and the Greek word for &#039;tribute&#039; is ΦOPO so I tend in that direction.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Whatever they are, there have been a lot of these on the market recently suggesting a large find being disbursed.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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