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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ancientnoob, post: 1628996, member: 44140&quot;]<span style="color: #000000"><font face="Arial">Persia, The Sassanid Kingdom</font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Arial">Shapur I The Great King Shah of Persia (240 -272 AD)</font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Arial">AR Drachm 3.79g x 24.5mm</font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Arial">Obv. Bust of Shapur I right with earring; crown with ear flap. Pahlavi script- &quot;The Mazda Worshiper. the divine Shapur, King of Kings of Iran whom descended from the Gods. </font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Arial">Rev. Zoroastrian Alter with Two Attendants.-Pahlavi script-&quot;The Fire of Shapur&quot;</font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Arial"><br /></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Arial">Defeated Three Roman Emperoers in Battle, Killed Gordian III in Battle, Forced Philip the Arab into a Shameful treaty, Captured, &quot;footstooled&quot; and stuffed Valerian I.</font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Arial"><br /></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Arial">Shapur was co-regent in the early days with his father Ardashir I. In a letter from the Emperor Gordian III, he states, &quot;the King(s) of Persia&quot; the plural, giving us the presumption that in the early years of adulthood Shapur sat on the thrown as co- regent with his father. </font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Arial"><br /></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Arial"><br /></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Arial"><br /></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Arial"><br /></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Arial"></font></span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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