Sellwood 86.1 - Vologases V Facing Tetradrachms?

[ThatParthianGuy]

Hello,

I've been meaning to make a post about this for a while now. I found something interesting in An Introduction to the Coinage of Parthia: A description and drawing of a Vologases V tet with a facing portrait. I have attached an image of the page. Vologases V minted tetradrachms, but the portrait is a profile, so I was initially surprised to find this. I did some sleuthing to find a photograph of this type that I had never heard of before, and came up with nothing. The reverse die is easy to find on the aforementioned profile tets, but not the obverse. Does anybody else know about this? Does this type actually exist? Thank you for your help.

-Zeki

[Kamnaskires]

I've never seen the type listed on the market.  And, based on the Baldwin's auctions, there seem to have been none in Sellwood's personal collection.

Here's an S.86.1 from the BMC:
http://www.coinproject.com/coin_detail.php?coin=111442
http://www.coinproject.com/siteimages/32-BMC_Parthia_35-7.jpg

That same specimen is published in Wroth's Catalogue of the Coins of Parthia :
http://snible.org/coins/bmc/parthia/35.html



Sellwood's illustration for the 86.2 on his 1971 poster (his "Record of Parthian Coinage" wall chart) was slightly different than the one you post from his 2nd edition:

[Alwin]

S.86.1 : http://www.parthika.fr/T21.html#S86
S.86.2 : http://numismatics.org/search/results?q=1944.100.83484+AND+department_facet%3A%22Greek%22&lang=fr

[ThatParthianGuy]

Wow! Thank you both so much for the help. It must be an extremely rare issue. I wonder if the die engravers thought it looked too similar to the king's drachms and discontinued the design.