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Drachm - Artabanus II
| Issuer | Parthian Empire |
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| Year | 10-38 |
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| Currency | Drachm (247 BC-224 AD) |
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| Obverse description | Bust of Artabanus II facing left, depicted in the characteristic Parthian royal style. The king wears a tall tiara adorned with multiple horizontal ridges and a prominent diadem, with long flowing hair rendered in stylized parallel strands falling behind the neck. The royal beard is similarly treated with incised parallel lines. The bust is set within a plain inner border surrounded by a beaded outer border, and no legend appears on the obverse. |
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| Reverse description | Arsakes I, the dynastic founder, shown seated to the right on an omphalos throne, holding a strung bow in his right hand — the traditional Parthian dynastic reverse type. The figure is rendered in a formal, frontal manner consistent with late Parthian artistic convention. A circular Greek legend surrounds the central device, reading clockwise from the upper left. The field is plain, and the overall composition is enclosed within a plain border. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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