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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Finn235, post: 7470630, member: 98035&quot;]Thanks all! Great coins and discussion.</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=26302]@medoraman[/USER] - My understanding is that these countermarked pieces are official imperial drachms on the basis that they</p><p><br /></p><p>1) Come from a variety of mints</p><p>2) Include both type 1, 2, and 3 crowns</p><p>3) Are literate and inscribed in Pahlavi, not Bactrian (like my 4-dot Hunnic copy, supposedly swapping the mint for ALCHONO and the obverse legend for BALKH) or nonsense scribble marks (like most early Indian copies)</p><p><br /></p><p>The attribution to the ransom events is of course due to that being the single largest exportation of Peroz drachms in history; of course some of them probably ended up there by way of international trade, but those odds are small compared to the amount of coin used for the ransom.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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