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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Parthicus, post: 2669813, member: 81887&quot;][USER=34514]@icerain[/USER]: No problem, identifying these coins is a real challenge.&nbsp; While looking carefully at the portrait (especially the crown) and other design details is a good strategy for identifying coins in the main Sasanian series, for Arab-Sasanian coins it can lead only to perdition; you have to buckle down and read the inscriptions.&nbsp; Which are in a&nbsp; combination of Arabic and Pahlavi, sometimes poorly inscribed, and with the normal fact that Pahlavi was clearly designed by someone who hated readers and wanted to make them suffer <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> .&nbsp; Gobl is great for the main Sasanian series, but doesn&#039;t include Arab-Sasanian (unless he wrote another book that I don&#039;t know about).&nbsp; For Arab-Sasanian, I have been struggling along with Mitchiner, Album, and Richard Plant&#039;s &quot;Arabic Coins and How to Read Them&quot; (plugged by Sallent above), supplemented by various online resources.&nbsp; If you find a good single-volume book for Arab-Sasanian coins, let me know![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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