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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Parthicus, post: 5228291, member: 81887&quot;]Yes, all of the coins shown so far in this thread are drachms, except for the last coin I posted which is a tetradrachm.</p><p><br /></p><p>The dashes found on many Elymaean reverses are normally referred to as &quot;dashes&quot;.&nbsp; Pretty self-explanatory, really. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; As for why they used dashes: The theory [USER=114568]@AmishJedi[/USER] quotes makes some sense, but the details are more complicated.&nbsp; The earliest coins of Elymais do have perfectly good Greek on the reverses, and over time this starts to degrade, eventually into dashes.&nbsp; But at the same time we also see reverses with perfectly good Aramaic legends, and even some late decent Greek (such as 14.1 and, less readable, 15.1 and 15.2), issued at the same time as reverses with just dashes, or issues with pictorial reverses without inscription or dashes. Tl;dr version: The dashes may have started out as degraded Greek, then been carried forward as their own &quot;type&quot; just because it looked cool to the Elymaeans.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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