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Parthia - Orodes I (90-80 BCE) or Mithradates III (87-80 BCE)
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Metal/Size: AR 19; Weight: 3.96 grams; mint: Rhaga; Year: 90-80 BCE; Obverse: King left with medium-length beard wearing a tiara with ear flap and with six pointed star and three rows of beads, diadem, earring, torque ending in pellet. Reverse: Beardless archer wearing bashlyk and cload seated right on a throne, holding a bow "BASILEWS MEGALOY APSAKOY AYTOKPATOPOS FILOPATOROS FILELLENOS EPIFANOYS" (Of the Great King Arsakes, Autocrat, the Father-Loving, the Noble, the Greek-Loving.) Reference: Sellwood 31.6?
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