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Drachm - Kamnaskires / Orodes - Kingdom of Elymais Arsacid Dynasty
| Issuer | Kingdom of Elymais |
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| Year | 100-180 |
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| Currency | Drachm (247 BC-224 AD) |
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| Obverse description | Diademed and bearded royal bust facing, with hair arranged in thick bunches or curls at either side of the head. To the right of the effigy, a pellet within a crescent appears above an anchor with two horizontal bars, serving as dynastic symbols. The facing portrait is rendered in the debased, schematic style characteristic of late Elymaean coinage, with heavy, stylized facial features. The flan is irregular, typical of the hammered billon issues of the Kamnaskires-Orodes series. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse field is occupied entirely by a series of short diagonal dashes or strokes arranged in a loosely structured pattern, representing the severely degraded remnants of what were originally Aramaic or Greek legends. These marks, now wholly illegible, are characteristic of the terminal phase of Elymaean coinage, in which inscriptions had degenerated into meaningless sequences of lines through repeated copying by unskilled die-cutters. The flat, worn flan further obscures any residual detail. No additional devices, symbols, or exergual elements are discernible. |
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| Mintage | ND (100-180) - - ND (100-180) - Alram 480 variant (as Kamnaskires-Orodes III) - |
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