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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2540802, member: 19463&quot;]As mentioned in that other thread, you did well getting the Phraates IV and might want a Phraataces if for no other reason than he was the Parthian king 2 BC-4AD.&nbsp; Of course if you agree that Jesus&#039; birth was more likely 6 BC, the Phraates IV is the correct coin.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>In few words, Sellwood, <b>The Coinage of Parthia </b>page 182 sums up the Musa story well including the very Sellwood line: &quot;...and then, as was the Magian custom contracted an incestuous marriage, a union greeted with typically arrogant incomprehension by western writers.&quot;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I showed my nicer Phraates IV from Mithradatkart with that earlier thread so here I&#039;l just offer the recent addition from the more common Ecbatana mint.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]544487[/ATTACH] </p><p>Yours is Rhagae mint (one of the mints I lack for him) and a very nice coin IMHO.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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