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<p>[QUOTE="Severus Alexander, post: 3139011, member: 84744"]Great writeup as usual, Curtis!! Cool coin, too... here's my Khusro II, WYHC mint (uncertain location, possibly Arrajan or a mint near Ctesiphon), dated year 33 i.e. 622-623:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]802111[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Also relevant is this early Islamic coin dated year 50 (AH), corresponding to 670-671, issued under Ziyad b. Abi Sufyan. Did the Arabs just adapt Sasanian dies, or did they make new ones using Sasanid mint workers? The date and mint (Bishapur) are in Pahlavi, with bism Allah rabbi in Arabic in the margin:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]802119[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Here's a scarce early Heraclius while he was wondering what to do about the Persian threat now that he was emperor (year 1, 610-11):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]802123[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>And finally, with respect to your fire altar comments, a speculative connection with an Achaemenid coin, issued just before Alexander's conquest :</p><p>[ATTACH=full]802124[/ATTACH] </p><p>The mysterious reverse may depict an important Achaemenid architectural design. The pattern of concentric squares with a line jutting out corresponds well to an aerial view of a stepped structure with a main stairway. Such a structure clearly had a religious and/or funerary significance to the Achaemenids: the design is shared by a form of Achaemenid Zoroastrian(?) fire altar, found e.g. in Pasargadae near Cyrus's tomb, a similar Achaemenid structure, now called "Ka'ba-ye Zartosht" in Fars,which may be a fire temple or a tomb, and also the tomb of Cyrus the Great (missing the stairs) in Pasargadae. It bears some resemblance to the fire temple you've posted as well. I do wonder if there's a connection! (I posted some more details <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/mysterious-achaemenid-bronze-coin.307214/#post-2933682" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/mysterious-achaemenid-bronze-coin.307214/#post-2933682">here</a>.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Severus Alexander, post: 3139011, member: 84744"]Great writeup as usual, Curtis!! Cool coin, too... here's my Khusro II, WYHC mint (uncertain location, possibly Arrajan or a mint near Ctesiphon), dated year 33 i.e. 622-623: [ATTACH=full]802111[/ATTACH] Also relevant is this early Islamic coin dated year 50 (AH), corresponding to 670-671, issued under Ziyad b. Abi Sufyan. Did the Arabs just adapt Sasanian dies, or did they make new ones using Sasanid mint workers? The date and mint (Bishapur) are in Pahlavi, with bism Allah rabbi in Arabic in the margin: [ATTACH=full]802119[/ATTACH] Here's a scarce early Heraclius while he was wondering what to do about the Persian threat now that he was emperor (year 1, 610-11): [ATTACH=full]802123[/ATTACH] And finally, with respect to your fire altar comments, a speculative connection with an Achaemenid coin, issued just before Alexander's conquest : [ATTACH=full]802124[/ATTACH] The mysterious reverse may depict an important Achaemenid architectural design. The pattern of concentric squares with a line jutting out corresponds well to an aerial view of a stepped structure with a main stairway. Such a structure clearly had a religious and/or funerary significance to the Achaemenids: the design is shared by a form of Achaemenid Zoroastrian(?) fire altar, found e.g. in Pasargadae near Cyrus's tomb, a similar Achaemenid structure, now called "Ka'ba-ye Zartosht" in Fars,which may be a fire temple or a tomb, and also the tomb of Cyrus the Great (missing the stairs) in Pasargadae. It bears some resemblance to the fire temple you've posted as well. I do wonder if there's a connection! (I posted some more details [URL='https://www.cointalk.com/threads/mysterious-achaemenid-bronze-coin.307214/#post-2933682']here[/URL].)[/QUOTE]
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