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<p>[QUOTE="Bob L., post: 8172847, member: 56976"]A good start to 2022, Mat. One of the interesting things about this sub series in Elymaean numismatics is the degeneration of the reverse bust over a number of decades, during which time the obverse busts remain intact and comprehensible. The reverse portrait is pretty far gone by the time of your coin’s minting. The gradual degeneration can only be an intentional, slowly performed erasure done by the new Arsacid Dynasty which replaced the previous Kamnaskires Dynasty. The reverse portrait was a carryover from coins of the so-called Later Kamnaskirid Dynasty, and I believe it may well have represented the progenitor of that family, Kamnaskires I, the first ruler of Elymais. Regarding the purposeful, progressive degeneration of the reverse by the Arsacids, van’t Haaff states, “the issuers of these coins wanted to change the iconography to break with the previous kings, but they were sensitive to the fact that abruptly changing the iconography would hinder the acceptance of the coinage in local trade.” So, I think we can view the Arsacids’ slow physical erasure of that portrait as an attempt to methodically eliminate the Kamnaskirids from the collective memory.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bob L., post: 8172847, member: 56976"]A good start to 2022, Mat. One of the interesting things about this sub series in Elymaean numismatics is the degeneration of the reverse bust over a number of decades, during which time the obverse busts remain intact and comprehensible. The reverse portrait is pretty far gone by the time of your coin’s minting. The gradual degeneration can only be an intentional, slowly performed erasure done by the new Arsacid Dynasty which replaced the previous Kamnaskires Dynasty. The reverse portrait was a carryover from coins of the so-called Later Kamnaskirid Dynasty, and I believe it may well have represented the progenitor of that family, Kamnaskires I, the first ruler of Elymais. Regarding the purposeful, progressive degeneration of the reverse by the Arsacids, van’t Haaff states, “the issuers of these coins wanted to change the iconography to break with the previous kings, but they were sensitive to the fact that abruptly changing the iconography would hinder the acceptance of the coinage in local trade.” So, I think we can view the Arsacids’ slow physical erasure of that portrait as an attempt to methodically eliminate the Kamnaskirids from the collective memory.[/QUOTE]
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