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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pellinore, post: 3126406, member: 74834&quot;]Again, a very good question to hone your collecting habits on. I&#039;m a real stickler for condition, but I will never pay more than the four digit amount and that only in very special cases (I did it once, in 2015). Usually I stop at $300, but this will never get me that Sasanian gold dinar I would like, unless it&#039;s worn and holed.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, I never found one, a Sasanian dinar in bad condition. And all coins that I paid more than $300 for, are in excellent condition. Like this Kidara Hunnic drachm, that&#039;s one of the 5 most expensive of my collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]796765[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>But maybe the second coin here is a good example of a type I wanted so much that I accepted a poor one... It cost only $25:</p><p>AE fals Tahirids (a dynasty subject to the Abbasids). Ruler Talha b. Tahir (822-828), mint Bust in Southern Afghanistan. About 825 AD. Obv. rough Sasanian head to the right in a circle, surrounded by unreadable text. Rev. Arabic text. 18 mm, 2.00 gr. Album 1394 (&#039;RR&#039;). This is the last Sasanian coin type in Iran. <a href="https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=148375" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=148375" rel="nofollow">Zeno 148375</a>. An Islamic coin 175 years after the death of the last Sasanian king.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]796768[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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