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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 8267155, member: 26430&quot;]No, I wish. But I do have a pair Valerian coins displaying Parthian (Persian) captives (VICT PART; there are also VICT PARTI). HIGHLY ironic!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1458757[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1458758[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>There is a famous giant bas-relief monument in Iran depicting the &quot;Triumph of Shapur I over Valerian&quot;:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1458761[/ATTACH] </p><p>Photo by <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Naghsh-e_rostam,_Ir%C3%A1n,_2016-09-24,_DD_12.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Naghsh-e_rostam,_Ir%C3%A1n,_2016-09-24,_DD_12.jpg" rel="nofollow">Diego Delso</a>, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0" rel="nofollow">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons</p><p><br /></p><p>For anyone curious, here&#039;s a blog post I wrote about it: &quot;<a href="https://conservatoricoins.com/irony-of-valerians-captive/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://conservatoricoins.com/irony-of-valerians-captive/" rel="nofollow">The Irony of Valerian&#039;s Captive: AR Antoninianus Celebrating &#039;Victory over Parthia.&#039;</a>&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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