| Budget Amount *help |
¥5,460,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,260,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥2,340,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥540,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This study elucidates how the powerful Sasanian currency system was accepted or exploited by the surrounding countries or later governments, investigating the excavated hoards and coins. For example, the close relations between some specific countermarks and scrapes on Sasanian coins can be evidenced through my investigation of the hoard from North China. The coins could be scratched by a hard tool before stamping countermarks to test their silver quality.Most of them are thought to have been applied in Central Asia or Northeastern Iran during the late 7th-8th centuries. To solve the enigma of when and where these countermarks were stamped, further research on the historical nature of Sasanian coins in circulation is required by collecting more relevant coins from museums and private collections around the world.
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