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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Parthicus, post: 7895657, member: 81887&quot;][USER=10461]@lordmarcovan[/USER] : Yes, your attribution is correct for both mint (LD, Rayy) and regnal year (25) of Khusro II.&nbsp; If you want to learn more about Sasanian history, a good recent book is &quot;Sasanian Persia: The Rise and Fall of an Empire&quot; by Touraj Daryaee.&nbsp; If you don&#039;t mind Victorian-era writing style (and some outdated information), George Rawlinson (who wrote a major book about the Parthians, &quot;The Sixth Great Oriental Monarchy&quot;) also wrote a volume on Sasanian history, titled (predictably enough) &quot;The Seventh Great Oriental Monarchy&quot;.&nbsp; There&#039;s an inexpensive modern reprint available, if you don&#039;t want to seek out the antique original.</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=91461]@Ryro[/USER] : I think you added the wrong photo at the to of your post, the first coin you show is an anonymous hemidrachm of the Abbasid Governors of Tabaristan, not a drachm of Khusro II as I think you intended to post.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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