چکیده:
Silver coins of Alexander of Macedonia, until the arrival of Parthians in the 1st
century BC, have been put in WDXRF in order to determin Ag, Cu, Pb and Au as
major and trace elements for fineness, debasement and refinement of silver in ancient
Persia.
Seleucid kingdom from 4th to 1st century BC was succeeded by several dynasties
and kings. But the chemical composition of their silver coins and their fineness shows
there was no changes in technology and economic policy.
سکه های نقرهای اسکندر مقدونی که ضرب آنها تا قرن اول ق.م، یعنی زمان حکمرانی اشکانیان ادامه
یافت، بهوسیله دستگاه طیف سنج تابش مجهول طول موجی برای اندازه گیری میزان نقره، مس،
سرب و طلا در این سکهها مورد آزمایش قرار گرفتند. هدف ما از این آزمایش اندازهگیری درصد
عناصر نادر و عناصر عمده در این سکه ها و از این طریق تعیین میزان دقت در ساخت سکهها، میزان
ناخالصی آنها و فناوری تصفیه نقره استخراج شده در ایران بود.
پادشاهانی که سکههای آنها در این پژوهش مورد بررسی قرار می گیرد از قرن چهارم تا قرن اول
ق.م بر تخت سلطنت نشستهاند. ترکیبات شیمیایی سکههای نقره این پادشاهان و تعیین میزان خلوص
آنها نشان میدهد که هیچ گونه تغییری در فناوری استخراج نقره و سیاستهای اقتصادی در دورههای
مورد بررسی ما صورت نگرفته است.
خلاصه ماشینی:
"Seleucid Mintage: A Pattern for Parthian Coinage Farhang Khademi Nadooshan1, Tahereh Azizipoor2, Mohammad Taghi Safari3 Received: 9/7/2008 Accepted: 22/6/2009 Abstract Silver coins of Alexander of Macedonia, until the arrival of Parthians in the 1st century BC, have been put in WDXRF in order to determin Ag, Cu, Pb and Au as major and trace elements for fineness, debasement and refinement of silver in ancient Persia.
Vijayan on Indian Punch marked silver coins (Vijayan 2004:355) issued by the contemporary of Alexander and his successors, showed that %age of silver in these coins varied between 68 to 86 %.
Research Methods In order to check the hypothesis of the present research the silver coins have been selected according to the accession of Seleucids and latter by Parthians to see if there was any deference in chemical composition of their silver coins or extraction techniques.
Discussion The spectroscopy on the selected silver coins of Alexander III till Mithradates II is a kind of short study which gave additional information about the history of Persia.
I. & etc, 2000:748-752) do not show any differences, however, they are not similar to the contemporary silver issues of Indian punch-marked (Vijayan 2004:356) coins.
As the Achaemenid silver coins of 4th century BC (Cowell 1986:89) shows copper as addition, which lacked in Alexander’s issues.
Chemical composition of these kings shows Parthian did not change economic policy established by Achaemenid and Seleucid.
EDXRF study of Indian punch-marked silver coins, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, B 225."