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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3730638, member: 19463&quot;]I second the nomination of Mithradates II as the first Parthian to own.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1000331[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I consider the dotted stags just a part of the work of a die engraver whose style was to drill?/punch? dots and then play &#039;connect the dots&#039;.&nbsp; Some in the legends are very obvious and deep but you see/imagine traces even in the portrait.&nbsp; I believe even the facial hair started as small, shallow dots and then was scratched between looking like hairs.&nbsp; Not every cutter worked this way.&nbsp; These people were artists each with distinct ideas of what was to be done and how to do it.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1000328[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1000329[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1000330[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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