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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GinoLR, post: 24570783, member: 128351&quot;]Interesting collection...</p><p>The Holy Grail of such a collection would be this <u>unique</u> gold coin of Shapur I. It is presently in the Elaziğ Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography, in Turkey.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1558218[/ATTACH] </p><p>AV 28 mm, 14.85 g</p><p>The obv. legend means : &quot;the Mazdayasnian (divine) majesty, Shāpūr, King of Kings of Iranians and non-Iranians, whose lineage is from the gods&quot;</p><p>The reverse legend: ZNE ZK AMTš prypws kycry AP hrwm’y PWN b’cy W OBDk YKAYMWN / HWEd, &quot;This (was at) that (time) when the Caesar Philip and the Romans stood in tribute and subjection to him&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>The Naqsh-i Rustam trilingual inscription of Shapur says that Philip paid 500,000 <i>dinars </i>(aurei) as a ransom for the Roman prisoners captured at <i>Misikhe </i>(Falluja). Without any doubt, this multiple dinar (= 3 Roman aurei?) was minted to celebrate this victory and reward brave Persian noblemen with the ransom gold...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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