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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Parthicus, post: 18855439, member: 81887&quot;]Over on the other site, DLTcoins pointed me to a coin on Zeno with the same obverse design.&nbsp; There, the inscription is read as ShPWR, which is interpreted as a mintmark for Eranshahr Shahpur.&nbsp; I&#039;m not entirely convinced by this reading (the &quot;W&quot; in particular doesn&#039;t seem quite right) (insert standard rant about terrible Pahlavi script) but it is at least plausible, and more likely than random use of Arabic.&nbsp; The use of 11 stars could very well be a random choice by the engraver- not every detail necessarily needs to have a greater symbolic significance.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think we can safely rule out an Arab-Sasanian origin of this piece, however.&nbsp; While there are a number of Arab-Sasanian bronzes with recognizable Sasanian bust types, the earliest I can find in Gyselen or elsewhere looks like Hormazd IV (579-590), much later than Yazdegard I (399-420).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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