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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Finn235, post: 4074381, member: 98035&quot;]Thanks guys!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll probably need some time to gather my thoughts and notes, because this is about what it looks like in my head at the moment...</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1063901[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Interestingly, these early coins seem to have a few periods of relative stability interspersed with periods of relative chaos. From the stable periods, you see relatively little variation between coins, yet die-matched pairs are extremely rare to nonexistent. A prime example are these, which show up in nearly every hoard of early Indo Sassanians:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1063964[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1063965[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1063966[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>On the other hand, the other series display immense difference between one coin and the next, but die matches are a bit easier to find</p><p>From the 2017 hoard</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1063968[/ATTACH] </p><p>And this one (different reverse die again)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1063967[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>As for how many die pairs ever existed... Thousands would probably be a conservative estimate. My observations point to a political/economic environment where coins were continually being melted and recoined - I emphasize melted because nobody has ever found a single specimen from any series of Indo Sassanian coinage that was definitely overstruck - at least not with an identifiable undertype. Probably less than 5% of all of these coins that were ever minted made it into the ground- the rest probably ended up as either later types, Bull and Horseman jitals, or later Islamic silver.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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