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Building up a collection of Parthian coins

Started by JMP, January 13, 2025, 05:13:06 PM

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JMP

As Parthian coins are practically all minted in medal alignment, they fit marvellously in an album and tolerate comment on the coinholder on both sides:

JMP

The reason I show this small collection on the forum is, I want to ask Kamnaskires' permission to use the image with the ibex which is at the bottom of this album page.
He convinced me, the animals on Phraates' tiara are  rather ibexes than stags:

JMP

This is a young collection of temporarily only 15 coins of 13 different rulers:

JMP

The reason why coin and comment here are separated by empty squares is for the balanced shape of the pages in the album. As all squares will be filled in the future, coin and comment will be next to each other:

THCoins

That's a very nice display. Mijn complimenten !

Kamnaskires

Wow, this is great. Well done – both the collection of coins and the selection and display of associated imagery. Very nice handwriting too.

It's also nice to see the Hekatompylos, Kangavar, and Mithradatkart mints represented in the group.

Quote from: JMP on January 13, 2025, 05:26:37 PM...As all squares will be filled in the future...
A great goal. Enjoy the hunt. For my part, in all the years I collected Parthian coins – from approximately 1990 to 2020 – I never managed to snag an Arsakes I. That was always a frustration for me. I hope you have better luck with that guy than I did.

JMP

@ THCoins:
Hartverwarmend! Hartelijk dank.

@ Kamnaskires:
Thank you very much for this nice reaction.
So, I assume, you have no problem with the image of Phraates III and the ibex, which is composed out of  pictures you posted on this forum?


JMP

Collectors of Parthian coins, feel free to post here the pieces you want to comment on, to show your collection or parts of it. All this fits perfectly under this topics' title.

JMP

Before someone else rubs it under my nose ... yes, there is a dumb mistake on the reverse side of my first page of coins.

The coin which has "Muntplaats-Hekatompylos" underneath, I purchased together with a coin of king Ariarathes of Cappadoce. I just noticed, it got the sticker for that Ariarathes coin pasted on.

Here is the corrected reverse side of the said page: