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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Finn235, post: 3248966, member: 98035&quot;]Countermarks do exist on Sassanian drachms, especially those from the &quot;30 mule loads&quot; from either ransom of Peroz:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.zeno.ru/showgallery.php?cat=11482" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.zeno.ru/showgallery.php?cat=11482" rel="nofollow">https://www.zeno.ru/showgallery.php?cat=11482</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The Huns who copied them did use specific sets of countermarks, and some (especially the North Tokharistan / Kobadien imitations) seem to not exist without countermarks. The Phroro drachms are usually described as being on imitations of Hormizd IV as EWC suggested; perhaps from a seized mint batch, as all are from the Balkh mint, RY 11--Balkh had fallen to the Turks in that year or soon after.</p><p><br /></p><p>Back to the Indo-Sassanian coins, Maheshwari mentions hoards in passing, but does not dive into the contents of any particular hoard. There are earlier iterations than the earliest I have been able to buy for my collection, but I have only seen a few; a handful in archives of ebay sales that sold a couple years before I started collecting this series, and a few more in archives of Indian auction houses. All things considered, mine is a decent imitation of an official Peroz from the GWL mint:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]852065[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]852066[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m just spitballing here, but regarding the lack of official Peroz drachms in the earliest hoards, one fascinating discovery that Maheshwari made is that the earliest iterations are <i>very</i> pure silver; averaging 90% and going as high as 95%. I&#039;ve read that Sassanian coins of this time were only 80% - perhaps the locals didn&#039;t find them up to snuff, or only hoarded the local copies made of better silver? </p><p><br /></p><p>And regarding exactly who made these, Maheshwari argues it was the Gujjar people, who claim descent from a central Asian population that served under and fought alongside the Huns. Doing a bit of poking around online, I found that a Google Image search for &quot;Gujjar&quot; actually picks up a lot of memes from social media, and many of them seem to have appropriated the Kushan tamgha of Kanishka to identify themselves:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]852069[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The Gujjar people did go on to found the Chavada and Chaulukya dynasties, so that is consistent with the traditional attribution of the Gadhaiya coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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