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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24716062, member: 26430&quot;]My Khusro II is too awful to show (and I don&#039;t know where it or its photos are) so I&#039;m branching out:</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s my copy of David Sellwood (1925-2012) et al&#039;s <i>Introduction to Sasanian Coins</i>, signed by the authors &amp; inscribed to the great Sasanian scholar Robert Göbl (1909-1997) himself, with his bookplate, and correspondence from one of the authors:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1580265[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>And my favorite &quot;Sasanian&quot; coin, depicting Shapur&#039;s captive Valerian I, with a Parthian captive on the reverse -- I love the irony! (Shapur&#039;s monumental <a href="https://oi.uchicago.edu/collections/photographic-archives/persepolis/sasanian-rock-reliefs-naqsh-i-rustam-and-naqsh-i-rajab" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://oi.uchicago.edu/collections/photographic-archives/persepolis/sasanian-rock-reliefs-naqsh-i-rustam-and-naqsh-i-rajab" rel="nofollow">Naqsh-I Rustam</a> relief even borrowed from the iconography of Roman captives coinage to depict the emperors kneeling to him in submission!)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1580266[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><font size="6"><b>NEXT</b>:</font></p> <p style="text-align: center"><font size="6"><br /></font></p> <p style="text-align: center"><font size="6">Coin from a Roman (or other ruler) who fought the Persians/Parthians/Sasanians</font></p> <p style="text-align: center"><font size="6">(they don&#039;t have to have won!)</font></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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