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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Severus Alexander, post: 2661615, member: 84744&quot;]A very nice catch, and a great writeup - thanks!&nbsp; (Why not pick up a few more Persian? and Arab-Byzantine? and... <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />)</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are a few of mine to accompany the story:</p><p><br /></p><p>I tend to call him Khusru II, issued 622-23 (WYHC mint, location uncertain):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]590598[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>And the nasty brute, Focas (Follis, Constantinople, 607-8, SB 640):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]590600[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Heraclius, year 1 (610-11) follis from Nikomedia, scarce:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]590602[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>And finally, a couple of early Arab issues:</p><p>Temp. Mu&#039; awiya I Ibn Abi Sufyan, 661-680 &quot;Arab-Byzantine&quot; fals</p><p>[ATTACH=full]590603[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Arab-Sasanian, Khusru type, ca. 666-670, AR drachm, A-5, with bism Allah rabbi in obverse margin, issue of Ziyad b. Abi Sufyan. Also sports two Turco-Hephthalite countermarks.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]590604[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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