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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pellinore, post: 3080131, member: 74834&quot;]I didn&#039;t look at them for a long time, but here are my coins with this countermark, all three of them, that I acquired from one seller in a short period of time (Autumn 2014), probably been together in one bunch. </p><p><br /></p><p>They are all three Hormizd IV imitations, with one or two countermarks, neatly in the margin. No conquerors obliterating vanquished foes in their faces or throats - showing who was the boss. </p><p><br /></p><p>In the past, I fell for Dougsmit&#039;s phoro=tribute or tax argument, and I still think it might be something like that: one mythical animal countermark symbolising a tribal identity, and one of simple lettering, an administrative countermark meaning &#039;good&#039; (like the &#039;jaz&#039; of contemporary muslim coinage) or <i>Value 10</i> (I&#039;m saying that because of the likeness between <i>Oshoro</i> and the Arabic for 10, <i>&#039;ashara</i>). This is all very tentatively.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are the &#039;Oshoro&#039; countermarks arranged in a row. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]775476[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m sure these are five letters, no phi is there. </p><p><br /></p><p>And the coins, typical silver imitations of Sasanian drachms. 31-32 mm, 3.45-3.69 gr. </p><p><br /></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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