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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 8211499, member: 99456&quot;]As interesting coin [USER=81887]@Parthicus[/USER], is it as orange/brown in hand as the photo looks? Although I don&#039;t have a coin from the Traxiane mint, I will share another coin from this region that rarely shows up on CT.&nbsp; Part of Traxiane/Khorasan in north-eastern Iran is highlighted on the map below with a blue pin showing the rough location of Mashad the city that Sellwood lists (with question mark) as the possible mint city for Traxiane.&nbsp; The red pin for Perseopolis - the mint for my coin.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1440750[/ATTACH]</p><p>This coin from a King of Persis ruling under Parthian sovereignty 1st Century BC,&nbsp; potentially a contemporary of Orodes II<b>. </b> I found the Zoraoastrian barsom bundle intriguing on this coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;The barsom ritual is intended to express gratitude to the Creator for his boundless gifts in particular of vegetarian character. The barsom bundle is made of 45cm twigs (the length of the leg till the knee) of a prescribed thickness, in an appropriate number from a specific type of tree, bound into a bundle by a part of the leaf of the date palm.&quot;</p><p><b>- <a href="https://issuu.com/cngcoins/docs/catalogue_of_persis_coinage?fr=sZTI0MTcyNjIw" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://issuu.com/cngcoins/docs/catalogue_of_persis_coinage?fr=sZTI0MTcyNjIw" rel="nofollow"><b>P.A. van’t Haaff</b></a></b></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1440734[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>King of Persis, Oxathres</b> (Vahšīr), 1st century BC, Hemidrachm, 2.04g, 12mm, Istakhr (Persepolis) mint</p><p><b>Obv:</b> Diademed bust to the left, monogram behind</p><p><b>Rev:</b> King standing to the left, before the Fire Altar, holding a barsom bundle.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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