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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Severus Alexander, post: 6796787, member: 84744&quot;]Expanding into a less popular collecting area is a good way to respond to the current high prices! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; That&#039;s a very nice BBA (Court) mint, year 30.&nbsp; Cool mint because it may have travelled with the Shahanshah and was also widely imitated by the Huns.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s his grandfather, Khusro I (531-579), Kirman, year 22:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1272120[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>His father, Hormizd IV (579-590), Jayy mint, year 7:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1272121[/ATTACH] </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p>Sassanian invasion coinage, struck in Syria during Khusro&#039;s penetration into Byzantine territory, overstruck on an Anastasius follis from a hundred years earlier:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1272124[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Khusro II, WYHC mint, year 33:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1272123[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>And another year 33 Khusro II, Jayy mint this time, and clipped down to the post-reform Umayyad dirham standard, which started in 698, long after the Islamic conquest of Sasanian territory.&nbsp; Coincidentally year 33 of Khusro&#039;s reign corresponds to the first year of Muhammad’s Hijra in Medina (AH 1=622-623), which I think is a pretty cool detail about this coin.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1272126[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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