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<p>[QUOTE="Finn235, post: 3188429, member: 98035"][USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER] </p><p><br /></p><p>The coin to the left of the Alexander is a silver coin of the KhwarezmIan king Sawashfan, fl. 750s. He was the second to last Zoroastrian king of the Afrighid Dynasty and was a tributary king to the Abbasids on paper, although he probably butted heads to them - outside of coinage, he is known to have appealed to Tang china for a loan.</p><p><br /></p><p>These are some of the most fascinating medieval coins to me, as they are likely the most numismatically isolated, save for Chinese coins. They started in the 2nd century BC as imitations of tetradrachms of Euthydemos, and were gradually reduced until these coins could circulate at par with Sassanian drachms, and then Islamic dirhems.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I don't have individual images of the one to the upper left of Sawashfan, but it is a potin unit of the Celtic Leuci tribe in Gaul.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Finn235, post: 3188429, member: 98035"][USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER] The coin to the left of the Alexander is a silver coin of the KhwarezmIan king Sawashfan, fl. 750s. He was the second to last Zoroastrian king of the Afrighid Dynasty and was a tributary king to the Abbasids on paper, although he probably butted heads to them - outside of coinage, he is known to have appealed to Tang china for a loan. These are some of the most fascinating medieval coins to me, as they are likely the most numismatically isolated, save for Chinese coins. They started in the 2nd century BC as imitations of tetradrachms of Euthydemos, and were gradually reduced until these coins could circulate at par with Sassanian drachms, and then Islamic dirhems. I don't have individual images of the one to the upper left of Sawashfan, but it is a potin unit of the Celtic Leuci tribe in Gaul.[/QUOTE]
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