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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Muhammad Niazi, post: 5027501, member: 83232&quot;][ATTACH=full]1202019[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1202020[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Here is an interesting falus with a dragon depicted on it. Persian and Afhgan falus coins had many animals depicted on them, out of which the dragon is probaly the most uncommon. Dragons weren&#039;t a part of folklore and culture of central Asia and Afghan, being mostly dominant in chinese and european culture. This coin which was told to me by the seller to be of safavid origin might have the dragon on it due to intermingling of cultures from the georgian part of the empire. Some persian/ georgian coins do have dragons on them, such as valentine #43,44 :</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1202027[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>In Falus coins, a dragon is depicted in a hamadan falus, valentine #28 under Persia.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1202036[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>There are one or two coins with dragons on zeno.ru as well, one from tehran and one from the iranian qajjar dynasty.</p><p><br /></p><p>I havent found one similar to mine however, though my guess is it to be a variation of the hamadan falus with the dragon just facing to the left. </p><p><br /></p><p>Catalogue clippings from: Modern copper coins of the Muhammadan states - W.H. Valentine[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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