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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2517576, member: 19463&quot;]While there very likely was some link between the kings of Elymais and Parthia (vassals or even some being the same person in different aspects of his rule (like King James of England and Scotland?), we might be better off reserving the term Parthian for the coins of the larger empire and use Elymais for the local issues shown in this thread.&nbsp; Early Elymaean coins were more like Seleucids and some of the Parthian tetradrachms but the mainstream Parthian bronzes were nothing like these bronzes of the later days of Elymais.&nbsp; If you go to sell &#039;Parthian&#039; AE, buyers will be expecting the somewhat more scarce and expensive pieces of scrap metal (some are really horrid) and not these very distinct Elymaean coins.&nbsp; I stopped buying Parthian bronzes when the became fashionable and expensive.&nbsp; Elymaean is still cheap for the most part.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>From my Parthian page:</p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/paegrp.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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