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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 3540178, member: 82322&quot;][USER=81887]@Parthicus[/USER] nice &quot;fish eye&quot;.&nbsp; The fire altar on the reverse looks a bit like a fish hook with float on these as well!</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is one that looks like Hormizd IV and has an eye like yours.&nbsp; I believe it is a much later Western Turk imitation.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]940745[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>Tokharistan, Western Turk, Turk Yagbus in Tokharistan, circa 600-680 AD</b></p><p>(uncertain ruler imitating Hormizd IV, after 590 AD, fixed year 11), 32 mm, 3.78 grams</p><p>Obverse: Crowned bust right, within circle, stars and crescents around.</p><p>Reverse: Fire altar, attendants flanking, within circle.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]940746[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]940747[/ATTACH] </p><p>Countermarks of human head left and &quot;PHRORO&quot; in Baktrian.</p><p><br /></p><p>Imitation struck by the Western Turks after conquering Balkh about AD 590. </p><p><br /></p><p>Imitates a Balkh mint year 11 Drachm of Sassanian King Hormizd IV.</p><p>The minting continued to the middle of the 7th cent. Nearly all of these carry two countermarks, a portrait cm and a Bactrian legend, &quot;Phroro&quot;, attributed to Phromo Kesaro. The cm&#039;s were applied in the period 650-700 AD. Variously attributed to the Hephthalites / Nezak Huns.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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