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Ancients will never be a main collection point for me but if I find one I like the look, I may get it. Today you have a Silver dirham issued by Khurshid, Khurshid was the last Dabuyid ispahbadh of Tabaristan. He succeeded to the throne at an early age, and was supervised by his uncle as regent until he reached the age of fourteen. Khurshid tried to assert his independence from his vassalage to the Caliphate, supported various rebellions and maintained diplomatic contacts with Tang China. Finally, the Abbasids conquered his country in 759-760, and captured most members of his family. Khurshid fled to Daylam, where he ended his life at the age of 26/27. The coin:   |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Great strike on that coin. It's a beauty. Good write-up too. Thanks for sharing.
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Very nice!  |
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United States
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I love it @hjf! Will you remove it from its plastic tomb or do you plan to keep it in the slab?
"If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
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"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
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Pillar of the Community
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Hi Spense,
I am not an Ancient collector, so I am at a disadvantage without the plastic coffin. I also only have 3 ancients so for now they are in the coffin.
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United States
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Yes that is a totally reasonable point of view @hfj. Sometimes I find it neat to hold a chunk of metal that has been around for 1000 years in my bare hand and think about how many other palms it has crossed. This hemi-drachm clearly didn't get much use though.
"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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United States
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Spence, I agree. My local dealer has a few ancients that I may pick one up to just hold. This one is a little too nice to take out of the coffin, one of the reasons I picked it up, it looked nice. The history was secondary.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Very interesting coin, hfjacinto! I was not familiar with these.
Inordinately fascinated by bits of metal with strange markings and figures
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Fantastic addition, hfjacinto! Thanks for the info on this, as well.
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Australia
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Yes, a very nice hemidrachm.
I'm quite partial to this style of coin.
Great pick up
The Ox moves slowly, but the Earth is patient.
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United Kingdom
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Very nice crisp example of a Sasanian legacy coin, in the style of the last great king of Pesia, Khusru II (590-628 AD). There are half dirhams of the rulers of Tabaristan that are very stylised, almost "cubist".
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Interesting coin!
I vaguely recall reading somewhere that some Tabaristan coins have a date in the Pahlavi legend on the reverse. Is this one of those? I can't read Pahlavi but there seems to be easily enough of it here for that.
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I vaguely recall reading somewhere that some Tabaristan coins have a date in the Pahlavi legend on the reverse. Is this one of those? I can't read Pahlavi but there seems to be easily enough of it here for that. This posthumous issue of Khurshid is dated PYE 111 (Post Yezdigird Era) or AH 145, around 762 A.D. Date is down the right side of the reverse. Walker 256 
The Ox moves slowly, but the Earth is patient.
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04/02/2025 05:01 am
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I had my eye on a few of these coins, mainly because it was the last of the Sassanian hold outs and that most are in MS or AU state.
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