IRAN/Sasanid; Khusro II CE 590-628

AR Drachm, 4.04 g, 31 mm, 3h, AHM =Hamadan mint RN: 27= CE 616-617

Göbl 212

O:  crowned bust right, XUSRUI on right AFZUT on left  “Khusro, may he increase”

R: on right AHM on left regnal date "Haftbist"/= 27

ROMAN/Trajan CE 98-117

AE Sestertius 34mm, 28.84 g, 6h, Roma mint c. CE 106-107

RCV 3201 variety; RIC II 528; Woytek 204cA; Banti 168; BMCRE 813-4

O: Laur., draped bust with aegis, IMP CAES NERVAE TRAIANO AVG GER DAC PM TRP COS V PP

R: Victory stg r, l. foot on helmet(?) inscribing VIC/DAC on shield attached to palm stump.

SPQR OPTIMO PRINCIPI/ S-C in lower field.

Commemorates Trajan’s victory in the Second Dacian War.

Trajan at the Uffizi in Firenze, September 2024

IRAN/Parthia; Phriapatius BCE 185-170

AE Chalkous 2.78 g, 16 mm; Hekatompylos mint

S 8.2 var. (Mithradates I in Sellwood 1980)

O: bust left wearing a bashlyk

R: horse prancing right with retrograde APΣAKOY across the upper field