Abstract
A Study of Sasanian Silver Coins Employing the XRF Technique
Highlights
Coins play an important role in our cultural heritage and usually have a high artistic and cultural value
The investigation techniques include wavelength dispersive X-ray fluorescence analysis (WDXEF) which can be applied non-destructively without sampling, XRF is limited in the sample size
Using XRF as an analytical technique, we have focused on metals once used in the Sasanian period in Iran
Summary
Coins play an important role in our cultural heritage and usually have a high artistic and cultural value. One of the two great powers of late antiquity, the Sasanian domain eventually encompassed modern-day Iran and Iraq, and controlled or influenced the greater part of Central Asia, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, the Caucasus, Armenia, Georgia and the Near East This geographically diverse empire brought together a striking array of tonicities and religious practices. In another research Kallithrakas-Kontos and his colleagues (KallithrakasKontos, Katsanos, Touratsoglou 2000) which has worked on the Alexander silver coins, has showed Bi possibly may be used as the indication for mines (Kallithrakas-Kontos, Katsanos, Touratsoglou 2000). The same method has been applied by Guerra for Au mines and coins (Guerra 1998; 2004; 2008) Hajivaliei and his colleagues were the first Iranian scholars to study Sasanian silver coins with the PIXE technique (Hajivaliei et al 2008). In connection with this study, we tried to find the connection between silver metals which have been used for issuing the coins and the source of metal being used for the mints during the Sasanian period
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