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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 2030668, member: 26302&quot;]Relating to Arab Sassanian coins, they really didn&#039;t abstract the head much. When the Arabs took over a couple of things were happening. One, Parthian nobles who sided with the Arabs were allowed to strike their own coinage for a while. This is the basis of the Tabaristan coins and others. Also, the Arabs themselves struck imitations of Sassanid coins for a period, with just some countermarks indicating it was Arab and not Sassanid. Only very late, with Sulayman, did the head get changed to an abstract form. In fact, the abstract head is how most collectors know its a Sulayman coin, as I believe he is the ONLY one to look like that. After that they invented purely Islamic coinage, with only lettering on both sides.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>So the display was right, but overly simplistic. Not a bad little display of Sassanid coinage, but many of us here own better and much larger collections. Probably the rarest on that display is the Narseh, followed by Ardashir III, (just a boy when he ruled), then Ardashir, (the founder of the Sassanid dynasty).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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