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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Parthicus, post: 3465543, member: 81887&quot;][USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER] : Bob L. has already given a good description of Assar vs. Sellwood/Shore attributions for your coins, there&#039;s not much for me to add there.&nbsp; For Sellwood type 81 (Parthamaspates/Sanatrukes), Assar&#039;s reasoning is as follows:&nbsp; Parthamaspates was acknowledged as king only at Ktesiphon (while the Romans were still hanging around) and doesn&#039;t seem to have had support in the Iranian highlands, while the anti-Roman rebel and Arsakid prince Sanatrukes was called by John Malalas &quot;emperor of the Persians&quot; and had his power base in Media, which includes Ekbatana where this drachm was minted.&nbsp; However, John Malalas wrote long after the events in question (6th century AD), and is not considered particularly reliable by most historians.&nbsp; Personally, I find Assar&#039;s argument fairly plausible, although as Assar himself states &quot;conclusive proof is lacking&quot;.&nbsp; Sometimes we just have to live with uncertainty.</p><p><br /></p><p>I do think your characterization of Sellwood and Shore as &quot;worthless&quot; is much too harsh.&nbsp; Yes, further research has questioned some of their attributions, but that is the nature of any active research field- we must be prepared to challenge what we think we know.&nbsp; While there are a number of changed attributions, many others have remained unchanged (most of Mithradates II, Phraates II and III, Orodes II, Phraatakes and many others) and some are just a shift in numbering (the Artabanoses).&nbsp; And the Sellwood numbering system is still an excellent way or organizing Parthian coins, even if the attribution of type X to king Y may have changed since Sellwood wrote (39 years ago for the most recent edition)- I still consider any Parthian coin sold without assignment to the correct Sellwood type to be unattributed. </p><p><br /></p><p>Also, I just checked, and there is a seller on Vcoins selling a used copy of the Sunrise catalogue for just $69.&nbsp; I strongly urge you to buy it now- at that price, it&#039;s a steal.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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