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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Parthicus, post: 2548497, member: 81887&quot;]Deacon Ray: I really don&#039;t mind continuing as one of the &quot;Parthian guys&quot; on the group.&nbsp; I still find them interesting, and will still probably acquire a few more in the future.&nbsp; Plus, I love sharing whatever bits of knowledge I&#039;ve picked up over the years, and why shouldn&#039;t that include a sub-specialty that I spent years focusing on?</p><p><br /></p><p>As for other contemporary kingdoms to collect, it sounds like you&#039;ve been pretty thorough.&nbsp; About all I would add are the Sabaeans and Himyarites of southern Arabia, though for those kingdoms the sequence of rulers isn&#039;t so well understood and you may not be able to do the &quot;three consecutive rulers&quot; theme.&nbsp; You could also do Elymais, Persis, and Characene- even though all were vassals of the Parthians, they did issue their own coinage.&nbsp; Moving further afield, there were various kingdoms in India issuing coins at this time, and of course China, though these places had little interaction with Judaea so they may seem like stretching too much.&nbsp; Though China in this period does include the reign of Wang Mang (7- 22 AD), who not only made several currency reforms (leading to numerous coinage types being abundant today), the story of his reign is fascinating, and I leave it for you to look him up.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>My Parthian coins are going to be sold by Classical Numismatic Group (CNG).&nbsp; I don&#039;t know the exact date, but it&#039;s probably some months away as it takes time for them to properly catalogue and photograph the coins, decide starting bids and which coins to group vs. which to sell individually, etc., not to mention the many coins in the queue ahead of mine.&nbsp; Assuming it&#039;s not against group policy on advertising, I will announce the sale date(s) here when I know more.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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