Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis is responsible for the British Museum’s collection of pre-Islamic Iranian coins (from the third century BC until the middle of the seventh century AD), which includes both Parthian and Sasanian coins. She also looks after coins of the Islamic world beginning with the Umayad and Abbasid period and including coins of the Samanid and Buyid, Seljuk, Mamluk, Ayubid and Fatimid, Ilkhanid and Timurid, Safavid and Qajar dynasties.
Vesta is also involved in two major coin projects. The Sasanian Coin Project is a collaborative project with the National Museum of Iran in Tehran which aims to produce catalogues of the Sasanian coins of the third to seventh centuries AD in the collections in Tehran and London. The Parthian Coin Project is a multi-institutional project with will catalogue coins of the third century BC to the third century AD in London, Vienna, Tehran, Paris, Berlin and the American Numismatic Society New York.
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