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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrsmat71, post: 3570276, member: 42634&quot;]Oh man, I don&#039;t know.&nbsp; It says it is a struck fake using &quot;electro-erosion copied dies&quot;, I&#039;m not sure what that means.&nbsp;&nbsp; I have a feeling it would be pretty difficult to detect this as a fake.&nbsp; Even the flan looks right. I assume it is silver also?&nbsp; That&#039;s a tough one. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, that&#039;s a cool new coin [USER=21445]@Mat[/USER] !&nbsp;&nbsp; I don&#039;t have a coin of Vologases III, but I have a couple from V man the 4th, here is a drachm.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]950733[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><font size="6"><b>Parthian Kingdom. Vologases IV. A.D. 147-191. Silver Drachm</b></font></p><p><br /></p><p>O: Bust left with long, tapering and square cut beard, wearing double banded diadem with double loop, and tiara with earflaps, decorated with &quot;hooks&quot; on crest, ear and earring visible, spiral torque, dotted border. R: Archer enthroned right, pellet above arm, monogram below bow, single line Aramaic (top) , followed by a six-line stylised &quot;Greek&quot; inscription. Ecbatana .mint. 3.5 g, 19 mm. Sellwood type 84.128, ex. Tom Buggey.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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