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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pellinore, post: 2382588, member: 74834&quot;]Excellent, so I need not look for that strange coin, that turns out to be a fake. Sorry ancientnoob...</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s one of my Bukharkhudat coins. Probably from the 9th century AD, a good quality silver coin. Left, on the obverse, a vague imitation of a legendary Sassanian shahanshah&#039;s head can be seen, the head with the crown of Bahram V Gor (reigned 420-438).</p><p>On the reverse, there&#039;s the head of the god Ahura Mazda in the flames. At the foot of the reverse you can see a little square, the rudimental base of the fire altar. The whole setup of this coin has been taken from the Sassanian silver drachm, a trusted monetary unit for many centuries at the borders of the Bukhara realm (now in Uzbekistan).</p><p>When this coin was produced, the large Bukhara oasis had been firmly Islamic for half a century. However, coins like this, firmly rooted in an old and trusted coinage tradition, were accepted readily and the Abbasid drachms were not.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]488491[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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