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Similar to religious reverse glass paintings, Gilan's holy shrine paintings are also religious art from the Qajar period. Among these paintings in the matter of religious beliefs and artists' origins, a unity in the style of narration and illustration can be found. Transtextuality, introduced by Gérard Genette, is one of the most important theories in literature and art. He addresses different ways of how a text can remind the reader of a previous one and guide the reader towards it. The main question of the research is which factors that have been used in reverse glass paintings and holy shrine paintings have transtextuality and similarity. The research method is descriptive and analytic and the library collecting content method is taking fiche notes and reading pictures text; the data analyzing is qualitative. Findings are indicative of a similarity and transtextuality relation between holy shrine paintings and reverse glass paintings. Forgery similarity is the application of visual elements and semantic implications, with functioning and imitating form and pretext content. Transposition Transtextuality in the visual structure and semantic implications has a critical role in hypertextuality. Artists have created a new concept by modifying elements and changing the concept in Gilan's holy shrine painting.
 

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Hundreds of stray coins are being donated every year to different Iranian museums but it is difficult to establish their authenticities due to lack of knowledge about places of their findings. Part of these stray metallic pieces is related to Parthians. Due to their lengthy rule, of about five centuries, Parthian coins form important part of numismatic collection at the museums. Authors have taken Reza Abbasi Museum at Tehran as case study to review the authenticity of those coins. A comparison between statistical data and available historical records give a vivid idea about the genuineness and forgery of these metallic pieces. As such, this article attempts to show the genuineness of some of the coins by taking into account statistical data from early Parthian kings and their comparison with the available historical documents.