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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Hellenistic Monarchies| > |Parthian Empire| > WA72042
Parthian Empire, Artabanos IV, c. 10 - 38 A.D.
|Parthian| |Empire|, |Parthian| |Empire,| |Artabanos| |IV,| |c.| |10| |-| |38| |A.D.|, The Artabanos that ruled Parthia from 10 - 38 A.D. has traditionally been named Artabanos II, and sometimes Artabanos III, but on the most recent list of Parthian kings, scholars have designated him Artabanos IV. An Arsacid on his mother's side, he was king of Media Atropatene when the Parthian nobles selected him to replace Vonones I as the Parthian emperor. The nobles did not approve of Vonones Roman lifestyle. Artabanos' attempts to wrest the throne were at first defeated -- as one competing issue of Vonones' coins attests -- but he eventually emerged victorious.
WA72042. Silver drachm, Sellwood 63.6 (Artabanus II), Shore 341 - 343 (Artabanus II), Sunrise 412, SNG Cop 166 (Gotarzes II); BMC Parthia p. 166, 38 (Gotarzes), VF, toned, square end of beard and part of ornate collar on flan (usually off flan), crowded flan smaller than the dies as invariable for the type, Ecbatana (Hamedan, Iran) mint, weight 3.941g, maximum diameter 19.8mm, die axis 0o, 10 - 38 A.D.; obverse bust left with long square straight beard, hair covering ear almost straight, earring visible, end of neck torque not visible, ornate collar, diadem with loop and three ends; reverse squared seven-line legend: BAΣIΛEΩΣ / BAΣIΛEΩN - APΣAKOY - ΔIXAIOY / EYEPΓETOY - EΠIΦANOYΣ / ΦIΛEΛΛHNOΣ, archer (Arsakes I) seated right on throne, wearing bashlyk and cloak, bow in right hand, (Ecbatana control monogram) below bow; SOLD










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