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Also won this coin from the same seller. AR Tetradrachm Parthian Vardanes I 40-45 AD 27mm x 13.60g Seleuceia mint Dated to November 43 AD 27mm x 13.60g Bankers mark on the obverse. Sellwood 64.21   |
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A very nice example, with clear year and month. It's always nice to be able to pin down the minting date that closely.
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Ron, that is a nice Parthian pickup. That banker's mark is hidden enough in the portrait that I didn't even notice it at first.
"If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
-----King Adz
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Bob thanks for the help with the year and Sellwood number. Dave I think the bankers mark makes the coin more interesting.
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Great start to the New Year Ron!
Excuse my ignorance here but were the bankers marks used to authenticate the coin?
Nice looking coin...Paul
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Reverse detail is fantastic on this coin, you can even make out the facial features of the king. I have to wonder how they were able to carve something so small back than. They must had had some type of magnification.
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"If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
-----King Adz
Edited by Spence
01/09/2019 9:44 pm
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The "banker's mark" looks to me like a test punchmark, to make sure the coin is silver and not just silver-plated. These test marks are common on coins from India, not sure how common from Persia.
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01/13/2019 4:16 pm
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 Exactly. Here's a similar test punch from a Volo I tet (from CNG), below. I like how, in both cases (Ron's coin and this one), the king's facial features were respected by the person doing the punch:  Edited by Kamnaskires
01/13/2019 4:24 pm
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Very similar, wounder if they were from the same punch?
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...the same punch? What's neat here is that we know when the coins were struck: yours, Ron, in 43 AD. The Volo I was struck in 63/64 AD - so twenty years later. Given the gap of two decades, I suspect these are from different punches. However, of course, it's certainly possible that the Vardanes was still in circulation at the time of Volo I's reign...so who knows? |
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