Sasanian ID help 230518 Khrusru II, please

[Nerosmyfavorite68]

Sorry to be a pest when it comes to these, but even with the cheat sheet, I'm still rather hopeless at reading dates and mints, especially with currently only having 1 1/2 good eyes. Any help would be appreciated.

The encrustations might make reading the mint impossible, unless the visible squiggle makes it possible.

I really enjoy Khrusru coins of this style. It's a bit hard for me to actively search for Sasanian to buy because there's so many spellings of most of the names.

[John Conduitt]

Hmmm. Might be Bishapur.

[Parthicus]

Agreed with @John Conduitt that BYSh (Bishapur) is a possibility, but that encrustation makes a definitive answer impossible.  Year looks like 33 to me, unless anyone else can offer a good argument for something else...

[Nerosmyfavorite68]

Thanks!

Someone must have really liked green encrustations.  90% of the ones with caked on green encrustations were sold.  It was kind of odd.  This one seems to have caked-on sand or mud.  I'll know more when it arrives.  I liked the bust and it was kind of akin to the impulse items in the checkout.  It got thrown in as part of a larger order.

I also ordered the most uncleaned Parthian Drachm they had! The previous semi-uncleaned one I bought a few months' back was the first Parthian buy since around 1993/4.  I want to find a quite nice example of one of the early kings, when they had realistic portraits.

[DLTcoins]

14 hours ago, Nerosmyfavorite68 said:

This one seems to have caked-on sand or mud.  I'll know more when it arrives.

The purple color suggests horn silver (AgCl).

[Ed Snible]

I agree with @Parthicus that 33 seems likely.

What is everyone using to read dates?  I still haven't found anything better than Tom Mallon's page http://grifterrec.org/coins/sasania/sas_mint/dp/sas_date_table.html

 

-Ed

[John Conduitt]

5 minutes ago, Ed Snible said:

I agree with @Parthicus that 33 seems likely.

What is everyone using to read dates?  I still haven't found anything better than Tom Mallon's page http://grifterrec.org/coins/sasania/sas_mint/dp/sas_date_table.html

 

-Ed

I use that page too. Definitely 33.

[Parthicus]

For Sasanian dates and mints, I use the pages at Forum Numismatics' NumisWiki, which are basically just versions of Tom Mallon's pages:

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Sasanian Dates

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Sasanian Mints

 

[Nerosmyfavorite68]

I find coins of Khrusru II really fun to collect.  I'm not so much into the 'thin bust' ones,but I really like this style.  When did (this) dotted beard style come about?

[Nerosmyfavorite68]

Is there a link for Tom Mallon's mint site?  The ones on Forum are shown vertically, which makes it double-difficult for me.

Reading Pahlavi is really difficult.  By the time I switch from Photoshop or whatever viewer I'm using, to the identification site, it's hard to remember exactly what the squiggles look like.

I'll try on this one, acquired right before eye trouble.  Year: 20-something. Mint; no idea, LHW?

[John Conduitt]

Rev-Ardashir (LYW), 25

Edited May 20, 2023 by John Conduitt

[Nerosmyfavorite68]

Thanks.  

[Ed Snible]

59 minutes ago, Nerosmyfavorite68 said:

Is there a link for Tom Mallon's mint site?  The ones on Forum are shown vertically, which makes it double-difficult for me.

http://grifterrec.org/coins/sasania/sas_mint/dp/sas_date_table.html

http://grifterrec.org/coins/sasania/sas_mint/sas_mint_table.html

[Nerosmyfavorite68]

Thanks!