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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Finn235, post: 3597444, member: 98035&quot;]Those are two very nice coins! Hopefully the weight is a typeo and the drachm weighs 3.83g.</p><p><br /></p><p>Shapur I made, IMO, the most beautiful Sassanian coins and I&#039;d even place it in my top 25 favorite designs of antiquity. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]962310[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Valerian I is interesting, in that no two coins of his ever seem to depict him the same way, except perhaps for the sestertii. He was in his fifties when he was emperor, yet his portraiture seems to show a man anywhere between his mid-20&#039;s and 80s. </p><p><br /></p><p>Despite the worn reverse die, I chose this Valerian for the portrait style </p><p>[ATTACH=full]962315[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>And random question [USER=99456]@Sulla80[/USER] - I can&#039;t help but shake the feeling that I have seen that Shapur before... Did you by chance buy it off of eBay last year?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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