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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Parthicus, post: 2692089, member: 81887&quot;]As I said before, I&#039;m not an expert in either Sasanian or Arab-Sasanian, but I own a few and have read a bit on the series, so I&#039;ll give an opinion.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t see anything obviously wrong about any of the coins [USER=85830]@arashpour[/USER] posted.&nbsp; The porosity of the Arab-Sasanian and the other may be due to partial crystallization of the silver.&nbsp; This sometimes happens to ancient silver coins, which results in loss of material and thus light weight, and such coins are less valuable than undamaged examples of the same type.&nbsp; I&#039;ve never heard of these being copied in plastic, I can&#039;t say it&#039;s impossible but I would expect any forger to at least use some sort of real metal.&nbsp; Album lists BN as a rare mint for these early anonymous Arab-Sasanian types (a few dozen different mintmarks are known), as far as I know mint marks on these are the actual mint but I could be wrong.&nbsp; I think the script on your Hormizd coin is correct, considering the fact that Pahlavi script is terrible and often hard to read even on perfectly preserved specimens.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, I would second Doug&#039;s suggestion to only buy coins from sources whose honesty and expertise you trust.&nbsp; Actually, that&#039;s good advice for anyone.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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