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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Parthicus, post: 8159984, member: 81887&quot;][USER=83956]@Gavin Richardson[/USER] : Mintmarks on Sasanian coins start with Varhran IV (388-399) and dates start a while later, by the late Sasanian period both features are present in a uniform location:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1424247[/ATTACH] </p><p>The mintmark on your coin is very clear and I read it as BBA (Court Mint).&nbsp; (The mintmark of BYSh (Bishapur) is similar, but yours looks a lot more like BBA than BYSh.&nbsp; See what I mean about Pahlavi script being hard to read?)&nbsp; As for the date, I am pretty sure it starts off DWE but the second half is harder.&nbsp; DWE is used to start dates that are in the form &quot;two and&quot;, so since your coin is of Khusro II the date must be either 12, 22, or 32 (32 seems most likely to me but I am not 100% sure).&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Now, how accurate was my attempt?&nbsp; Anyone else want to weigh in?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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