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Draped half-length bust of King Monobazos I facing right, rendered in the Parthian artistic tradition. The effigy features a long beard and a distinctive four-pointed tiara secured with a diadem. The encircling Greek legend identifies the ruler by royal title and name. The portraiture reflects the characteristic frontal-torso, profile-head convention of eastern Hellenistic coinage. |
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A prominent upright ear of grain occupies the central field, its stalk and leaves rendered in relief, flanked on either side by the Greek date letters. The entire design is enclosed within a circular laurel wreath, the individual leaves clearly articulated. A dotted border frames the outer edge of the wreath. The composition reflects Seleucid-influenced civic iconography common to eastern dynastic bronzes of the period. |
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Adiabene occupied a strategically awkward position between the Parthian and Roman spheres, and its rulers navigated that pressure through careful dynastic alignment with the Arsacids. Monobazos I is known primarily through Josephus, who records the later conversion of his dynasty to Judaism under his son and successor — an event unusual enough that it drew sustained Roman and Parthian attention to this otherwise minor client kingdom.
Dichalkon issues of Adiabene are genuinely scarce in any condition, a reflection of limited original production rather than heavy circulation loss.