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<p>[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 5176632, member: 26302"]I am embarrassed to say, but my original post I was going to postulate this is a Kidarite piece. However, then I saw this as a reverse type in SNS and thought I was simply wrong. It still screams Kidarite to me, from archaic style to full on man instead of alter, but SNS lists it as a Bahram V standard reverse type, and I assume they know more than I. There are Kidarite coins copying Bahram V, and those look better to me than this "official" piece. Merv would make sense too, being in the area of the Sasanian-Kidarite fighting at the time.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ah, what do I know. Still, very unique looking. Btw, I took the "rarity" to mean the Merv mint name on the coin. I too have other Bahram V coins with mint names, but not Merv.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 5176632, member: 26302"]I am embarrassed to say, but my original post I was going to postulate this is a Kidarite piece. However, then I saw this as a reverse type in SNS and thought I was simply wrong. It still screams Kidarite to me, from archaic style to full on man instead of alter, but SNS lists it as a Bahram V standard reverse type, and I assume they know more than I. There are Kidarite coins copying Bahram V, and those look better to me than this "official" piece. Merv would make sense too, being in the area of the Sasanian-Kidarite fighting at the time. Ah, what do I know. Still, very unique looking. Btw, I took the "rarity" to mean the Merv mint name on the coin. I too have other Bahram V coins with mint names, but not Merv.[/QUOTE]
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