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A Sasanian-style coin of Yazīd b. Mu‘āwiya

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

Malek Iradj Mochiri
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The silver coin presented here (Plate I) was acquired from a travelling dealer. It was sold to the writer in isolation, without accompanying coins or information which might have given some clue to its provenance. The dealer, although ignorant of the Pahlavi script, was clever enough to realise the value of the piece. He offered it as a coin of Khusraw II, but demanded three times the usual price on the grounds that it was of a mint rarely encountered

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 114 , Issue 2 , April 1982 , pp. 137 - 148
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1982

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