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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pellinore, post: 4230815, member: 74834&quot;]I&#039;ll tell you a secret (Ssssh...!). There is a thread like this on the Ancients Forum, that <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/follow-the-coin-theme-game-ancient-edition-post-%E2%80%98em-if-you-got-%E2%80%98em.300099/page-240" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/follow-the-coin-theme-game-ancient-edition-post-%E2%80%98em-if-you-got-%E2%80%98em.300099/page-240">has been going on for three years</a>. The rules are a bit different, <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/follow-the-coin-theme-game-ancient-edition-post-%E2%80%98em-if-you-got-%E2%80%98em.300099/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/follow-the-coin-theme-game-ancient-edition-post-%E2%80%98em-if-you-got-%E2%80%98em.300099/">as stated</a> by [USER=15445]@Collect89[/USER] in July, 2017: </p><p><br /></p><p><i>If you can post an item depicting the current theme, then you get to post a second item of your own to start a new theme. Post your coin &amp; state the theme that goes along with your coin. The theme might be coins with owls, coins with COS II, or coins with severed heads. Anything goes (coin, token, medal, artifact, etc) but we should keep it to something ancient. The next poster then posts something containing that theme &amp; then posts/declares some new theme.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>You see mainly Roman and Greek coins there, no medievals, like this worn but interesting coin: </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1081976[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>AE fals Tahirids. Talha b. Tahir (822-828), mint Bust in Southern Afghanistan. Obv. Rough Sasanian head t.r. in a circle, surrounded by unreadable text. Rev. Arabic text (kalima). 18 mm, 2.00 gr. Album 1394. RR. </p><p><br /></p><p>This is the last example of a Sasanian coin type in Islamic coinage. <a href="https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=148375" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=148375" rel="nofollow">Zeno 148375</a>.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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