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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3138690, member: 19463"]Interesting survey of the subject! It was mentioned that coins of Khusro II were common but we need to emphasise that. There are more coins of this one ruler than of the rest of the Sasanians combined. I have a few but I can not imagine anyone going for the 'set'. </p><p><br /></p><p>Poor striking is a serious problem with these thin coins. I am not terribly concerned about wear on coins but I discriminate against coins with flat places that make it hard/impossible to read the mint name and date. Mints can be read with a little practice on the common ones but many coins still will require some interpretation of the handwriting. Add to that, we see 'experts' differ on how they read/transliterate some letters. After all, we see the king's name spelled several ways (Khusro, Khosrow, Chosroes, Xusro or 'hwslwb' ---- Imagine what they can do with obscure town names. I am still working on the dates. The scripts vary. Sasanian dates spell out the numbers so we do not see a numeral like '23' but we must read 'three and twenty'. </p><p><br /></p><p>I'll show two coins of the same mint MY. Not all mints come in all dates so I really have no idea how many of these there are. This first has a flat area making the mintmark at right less than desirable and eliminating the right attendant. </p><p>MY (Meshan) year 2</p><p>[ATTACH=full]801980[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>My MY 38 is more clear on the mint but the date script at left is smaller. All of my Sasanian attributions have "I hope!" at the end. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]801993[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I'm currently calling this one AHM (Hamadan) 3. I'll feel better when I see another example matching that was IDed by someone who knows more about these. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]801994[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3138690, member: 19463"]Interesting survey of the subject! It was mentioned that coins of Khusro II were common but we need to emphasise that. There are more coins of this one ruler than of the rest of the Sasanians combined. I have a few but I can not imagine anyone going for the 'set'. Poor striking is a serious problem with these thin coins. I am not terribly concerned about wear on coins but I discriminate against coins with flat places that make it hard/impossible to read the mint name and date. Mints can be read with a little practice on the common ones but many coins still will require some interpretation of the handwriting. Add to that, we see 'experts' differ on how they read/transliterate some letters. After all, we see the king's name spelled several ways (Khusro, Khosrow, Chosroes, Xusro or 'hwslwb' ---- Imagine what they can do with obscure town names. I am still working on the dates. The scripts vary. Sasanian dates spell out the numbers so we do not see a numeral like '23' but we must read 'three and twenty'. I'll show two coins of the same mint MY. Not all mints come in all dates so I really have no idea how many of these there are. This first has a flat area making the mintmark at right less than desirable and eliminating the right attendant. MY (Meshan) year 2 [ATTACH=full]801980[/ATTACH] My MY 38 is more clear on the mint but the date script at left is smaller. All of my Sasanian attributions have "I hope!" at the end. [ATTACH=full]801993[/ATTACH] I'm currently calling this one AHM (Hamadan) 3. I'll feel better when I see another example matching that was IDed by someone who knows more about these. [ATTACH=full]801994[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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