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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Eyestrain, post: 1080024, member: 24213&quot;]The historical record of Elymais, which spent most of existence as a small kingdom within the Parthian empire, is spotty at best, and attributing the coins is troublesome. We don&#039;t even know for sure if many of the coins refer to actual Elymais kings or the Parthian rulers of the day since some of the names may have been the same. Different authors have offered up different rulers to go with the same coins and it all depends on whose school of thought you follow. Parthia.com has a separate page, <a href="http://parthia.com/parthia_coins_elymais.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://parthia.com/parthia_coins_elymais.htm" rel="nofollow">linked here</a>, about the coins of Elymais and is one of the best resources for attribution. Be prepared for minor disappointments when you find coins listed under headings like &quot;First Indeterminate King.&quot; It&#039;s an honest category, as factually accurate as possible, but it hardly brings history to life. This is a common pitfall when collecting the coins of the ancient Persians, who weren&#039;t big on keeping written records like their Roman rivals. Parthia itself has various indeterminate kings, but Elymais in particular is full of historical question marks.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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