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<p>[QUOTE="Only a Poor Old Man, post: 5953770, member: 111037"]Wow, [USER=99456]@Sulla80[/USER] this is exactly what I was looking for. You have done an excellent job accumulating resources and your blog is exceptional. I was really surprised when I saw the size of Parthia in one of the maps you provided. I was under the impressions that it only occupied the area of today's Armenia, but as it turns out their territory stretched to most of the old Seleukid domain. They surely had lots of Greek population under their rule which explains the coinage.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was about to recycle the envelope the coin came in, and this dropped out. It is an old collector's ticket. One side contains references that are probably outdated today, and the other side I cannot understand. It is in an unknown language, perhaps some kind of provenance? Anyone can read it?</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1243853[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Only a Poor Old Man, post: 5953770, member: 111037"]Wow, [USER=99456]@Sulla80[/USER] this is exactly what I was looking for. You have done an excellent job accumulating resources and your blog is exceptional. I was really surprised when I saw the size of Parthia in one of the maps you provided. I was under the impressions that it only occupied the area of today's Armenia, but as it turns out their territory stretched to most of the old Seleukid domain. They surely had lots of Greek population under their rule which explains the coinage. I was about to recycle the envelope the coin came in, and this dropped out. It is an old collector's ticket. One side contains references that are probably outdated today, and the other side I cannot understand. It is in an unknown language, perhaps some kind of provenance? Anyone can read it? [ATTACH=full]1243853[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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