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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Alwin, post: 6464693, member: 108806&quot;]Regarding Parthian coinage there are always many unresolved questions and&nbsp; few assertions that cannot be disputed.</p><p>Your conclusion is fine with me. I doubt very much myself that these bronze coins belong to the Parthian &quot;imperial&quot; coinage, I imagine them rather produced for the needs of local kinglets, in the eastern margins of the Parthian empire.</p><p>I have also always found interesting the hypothesis of a monogram (that of Ecbatane), which from a certain period no longer indicates the mint. However, if several mints (in addition to Ecbatane) produced drachms, one should notice disparities in style depending on the issuing mint, as is evidently the case with earlier drachms which bear different monograms. This is the case of the S.78.10 drachms, 78.10 variant without crescent, 78.11, whose style is very different from the S.78.2/7 drachms. But there are few comparable cases, at least which immediately come to my mind (probably because of the 3:45 a.m. here).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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