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Dichalkon - Abdissares
| Issuer | Adiabene, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 160 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse description | Eagle standing left with wings spread, depicted in a bold, schematic Hellenistic style; the bird's head is turned and the wings are outstretched in a manner recalling Seleucid dynastic reverse types. The figure is set within a beaded border, and the Greek royal legend naming King Abdissares is partially visible around the field, though heavily worn on this specimen. |
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| Reverse lettering | BAΣIΛEΩΣ - [A]BΔIΣΣAPO[Y] |
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Adiabene was a small Aramaic-speaking kingdom centered on the upper Tigris region, nominally subordinate to the Parthian Empire but maintaining enough autonomy to strike its own coinage. Abdissares is among the earliest identifiable rulers in the dynastic sequence, and his bronzes constitute some of the most obscure issues in the entire Parthian-period regional coinage — the kingdom left almost no contemporary written record, making these coins effectively the primary evidence for his reign.