Diobol - Orodes II

Aversbeschreibung	Bust of Orodes II facing left, wearing a distinctive Parthian-style tiara or diadem adorned with multiple tiers of decorative elements. The king's hair is rendered in elaborate wavy or corded strands falling to the neck, characteristic of Arsacid royal portraiture. A short, well-groomed beard frames the face, and a torque or necklace is visible at the base of the neck. A palm frond or similar vegetal symbol appears in the left field. The portrait is executed in the Hellenistic tradition adapted to Parthian aesthetic conventions.
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Zusätzliche Informationen	Orodes II secured the Parthian throne through fratricide — he had his brother Mithridates III hunted down and executed after a prolonged civil war — and his reign culminated in the catastrophic Roman defeat at Carrhae in 53 BC, where Crassus lost seven legions to the Parthian general Surena. The diobol denomination served intra-regional commerce rather than the prestige economy of the drachm, and surviving examples in any grade above corroded are uncommon precisely because small silver circulated hardest.