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Message:: [QUOTE="Glen Lindwall, post: 3494191, member: 90479"]Interesting coins.  I have several as part of my (absurdly) extensive collection of Persis coins.  I note that these diobols may have affected the weight of Persis coins in that around the time that these coins appeared the weight of the Persis hemidrachm declined to about the weight of the Parthian diobols.  I have charted my coins by weight.  Note that the years are very approximate and deliberately spread out for each ruler. Any given point could easily be off by twenty years or more.  But the trend is clear.  In particular, the "hemidrachms" of Unknown King II weigh the same as these "diobols" and are dated about the same time or just slightly after many of them.  Interestingly, the Persis hemidrachms may have declined in weight a bit before the drachms.[ATTACH=full]925253[/ATTACH]And here are a couple more Persis mint diobols of the Parthian kings:[ATTACH=full]925259[/ATTACH]Vologases II (above) and Artabanos IV (below)[ATTACH=full]925261[/ATTACH]And below I include a coin of Osroes I that Sellwood included in his paper on New Parthian Coin Types as being from an uncertain mint (Persis? or Ekbatana?).  I got this as part of a group lot of ex Sellwood coins.  This was the plate coin and was noted as the (at that time, at least) only known example.  Every once in a while an unexpected little treasure comes along.[ATTACH=full]925262[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]