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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 2784324, member: 42773&quot;]I also have one of these AE drachms of Phraates, recently acquired from Ken Dorney. <a href="http://www.parthia.com/parthia_coins_elymais.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.parthia.com/parthia_coins_elymais.htm" rel="nofollow">This page</a> at Parthia.com traces the progression of the coin types of Elymais - definitely worth a look. We don&#039;t know what the dashes signify, but an abstraction of writing is probably as good a guess as any.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://s2.postimg.org/w13t3k755/phraates_6.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="3">Elymais, Phraates, Early to mid 2nd Century AD</font></p><p><font size="3">Æ Drachm, 15mm, 3.18g.</font></p><p><font size="3">Obv.: Bust of Phraates left with star and crescent, trident behind.</font></p><p><font size="3">Rev.: Regular pattern of dashes.</font></p><p><font size="3">Reference: van&#039;tHaaff14.2, 2-1; Sear5902</font></p><p><font size="3"><i>ex Ken Dorney </i></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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