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Diobol - Vologases I
| Issuer | Parthian Empire |
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| Year | 58-77 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Diademed and draped bust of Vologases I facing left, rendered in the characteristic Parthian style with a long beard and wart visible on the forehead. The effigy is enclosed within a beaded border. The king wears a diadem with trailing ends, and the portrait exhibits the distinctive schematic treatment typical of late Parthian silver coinage. |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Vologases I spent much of his reign managing a fractious relationship with Rome over Armenia, a conflict that dragged on through the 50s and 60s AD and ultimately resulted in the compromise settlement of 63 AD — Rome's Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo and Vologases effectively agreeing that a Parthian prince would sit on the Armenian throne but accept Roman investiture. The diobol denomination in silver was a marginal, workhorse coin in the Parthian system, struck for local transaction rather than prestige.
Shore 381 falls within a tightly clustered group of issues attributed to the later portion of the reign, after the Armenian settlement freed Vologases to consolidate eastern holdings against pressure from nomadic incursions along the Bactrian frontier.