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<p>[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 5202964, member: 110504"][USER=74799]@Quant.Geek[/USER], these Parthian hemidrachms are really compelling, at least for how cool they are in general (novelty value included), and for the hint (maybe from late Seleucid tetradrachms?) of scyphate reverses.</p><p>...From here, this has to evoke the less ambiguously scyphate Himyarite drachms and hemidrachms, c. 2nd c. CE. Sorry I can't track down the .jpg of my only example, but other people here have better ones. ...One other cool detail of the Himyarite issues is that they have profiles on both sides, a motif that's appropriated by the earliest Aksumite issues, c. the 3rd or 4th quarter of the 3rd c. CE.</p><p>...Right, the whole metro Mediterranean area is full of this sort of thing, where a given coin can influence anything, going in any geographic direction, from weight and composition to module and motif,[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 5202964, member: 110504"][USER=74799]@Quant.Geek[/USER], these Parthian hemidrachms are really compelling, at least for how cool they are in general (novelty value included), and for the hint (maybe from late Seleucid tetradrachms?) of scyphate reverses. ...From here, this has to evoke the less ambiguously scyphate Himyarite drachms and hemidrachms, c. 2nd c. CE. Sorry I can't track down the .jpg of my only example, but other people here have better ones. ...One other cool detail of the Himyarite issues is that they have profiles on both sides, a motif that's appropriated by the earliest Aksumite issues, c. the 3rd or 4th quarter of the 3rd c. CE. ...Right, the whole metro Mediterranean area is full of this sort of thing, where a given coin can influence anything, going in any geographic direction, from weight and composition to module and motif,[/QUOTE]
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