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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Parthicus, post: 4568499, member: 81887&quot;][USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER] : Yes, your coin is part of the Sanabares (or successors) series, unfortunately too worn for me to be able to narrow it down to subtype.&nbsp; I&#039;ll allow it. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=108806]@Alwin[/USER] : The book is: Heidemarie Koch, &quot;A Hoard of Coins from Eastern Parthia&quot; (ANS Numismatic Notes and Monographs 165), 1990.&nbsp; ISBN 0-89722-239-3.&nbsp; The book is an analysis of a hoard of 266 bronze coins, mainly Sanabares-type drachms, that is in the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Also, after further consideration I think my coin more closely resembles Koch&#039;s Group 13 (represented by a single coin in the hoard, #248) than Group 5.&nbsp; The reverse of this coin is very poorly preserved, but the obverse more closely resembles my coin than Type 5 does.&nbsp; Interestingly, while Group 13 is attributed to Vardanes I, the mint location is given as Susa.&nbsp; The citation for this is given as G. Le Rider, &quot;Suse sous les Seleucides et les Parthes, Mission de Susiane&quot;, Memoires de la delegation archeologique en Iran 38 (1965) which unfortunately I don&#039;t have.&nbsp; This little coin is sending me down a research rabbit hole (which I consider a good thing).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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