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<p>[QUOTE="cmezner, post: 7840415, member: 87809"]Nice write-up. </p><p><br /></p><p>Don't have a Heraclius, but I do have a Khosrau II AR Drachm from Isfahan:</p><p>32.27 mm, 4.057 g Gayy/ Jayy (GD) mint, Dated RY 37 (626 /7 AD). Khosrau was murdered in 628 AD</p><p>Göbl type II/3; Alram 917</p><p><br /></p><p>Ob.: 'pzwt GDH - Afzud xwarrah hwsrwb - Husraw (May the royal Glory increase Khusru) Bust of King to r. wearing elaborate eagle-winged crown, within double border decorated with crescent and a six-pointed star fixed on the vertical bar; the two wings are fixed to the bar going out from the rim. Crescent and six pointed stars at 3, 6 and 9 o’clock</p><p>Rev.: Zoroastrian fire altar, an "atasdan" with a capitellum and plates, near which two attendants wearing headdresses stand facing ahead with star and crescent flanking altar flames, all within triple rim decorated with stars and crescent at 3, 6, 9 and 12 o’clock. Pahlavi legend: to the left - the year of his reign; to the right - the mint</p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]1348619[/ATTACH]</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="cmezner, post: 7840415, member: 87809"]Nice write-up. Don't have a Heraclius, but I do have a Khosrau II AR Drachm from Isfahan: 32.27 mm, 4.057 g Gayy/ Jayy (GD) mint, Dated RY 37 (626 /7 AD). Khosrau was murdered in 628 AD Göbl type II/3; Alram 917 Ob.: 'pzwt GDH - Afzud xwarrah hwsrwb - Husraw (May the royal Glory increase Khusru) Bust of King to r. wearing elaborate eagle-winged crown, within double border decorated with crescent and a six-pointed star fixed on the vertical bar; the two wings are fixed to the bar going out from the rim. Crescent and six pointed stars at 3, 6 and 9 o’clock Rev.: Zoroastrian fire altar, an "atasdan" with a capitellum and plates, near which two attendants wearing headdresses stand facing ahead with star and crescent flanking altar flames, all within triple rim decorated with stars and crescent at 3, 6, 9 and 12 o’clock. Pahlavi legend: to the left - the year of his reign; to the right - the mint [CENTER][ATTACH=full]1348619[/ATTACH][/CENTER][/QUOTE]
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