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Message:: [QUOTE="Parthicus, post: 6456241, member: 81887"]Thank you for the kind words and suggestions, everyone.[USER=21445]@Mat[/USER] : Your suggestion about style isn't stupid at all.  On some earlier issues, there is indeed a clear difference in style between different mints.  Orodes II is a good example: I could identify Susa mint coins based on the portrait alone, and Nisa/Mitradatkart (the two mints were just a few kilometers apart and seem to have shared an engraver) also has a distinctive style.  But by the period of S. 78, the portrait style becomes very uniform (at least to my eyes).[USER=26302]@medoraman[/USER] : Your idea of "military incursion issue" is interesting.  The period from about 110 to 120 AD was highly unsettled in Parthia, with multiple contending kings and claimants: Pakoros (78-120), Vologases III (105-147), and Osroes I (c.109-128), and oh yeah, that little invasion and occupation of Mesopotamia by Trajan and his puppet-king Parthamaspates.  So there's no shortage of candidates for who might issue such coins, or when and where they might do so.[USER=74834]@Pellinore[/USER] : Unfortunately I don't know a find-spot for my two OP coins.  Coins of the Sanabares type have mostly been found in far eastern Iran and points east (Margiana, the most common mint,  seems to correspond to Mary in Turkmenistan).[/QUOTE]