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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pellinore, post: 2957113, member: 74834&quot;]Quite, the mintmark is 3 o&#039;clock in bold lettering, the year is 9 o&#039;clock. The ruler&#039;s name is on the obverse right. This is all in Pahlavi, also spelled Pehlevi, or Middle-Persian. This is a pretty basic website: <a href="https://www.beastcoins.com/Sasanian/Sasanian.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.beastcoins.com/Sasanian/Sasanian.htm" rel="nofollow">Beastcoins</a>. </p><p>There are a few excellent books that may help you collecting Sasanian coins. The easiest to use is the quite recent book by Yngve Karlsson:</p><p><i>Sasanian Silver Coins. Sasanian Numismatic History with Identification Tools and a Catalogue of Sasanian Coins in Private Collections</i>. Göteborg, Mixtum Publishing, 2015.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s only about silver coins. Gold coins are difficult (many forgeries around, beware: especially those of Xusro II, year 36) and expensive: not easy to find one under $2000. But copper is very interesting, rather different from the silver, and often more expensive.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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