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Drachm - Mithridates II
| Issuer | Parthian Empire |
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| Year | 109 BC - 95 BC |
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| Value | Drachm (1) |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Mithridates II earned the epithet "the Great" for a reason: during his reign he pushed Parthian territory to its greatest extent, absorbing Mesopotamia from the Seleucids and extracting a humiliating submission from Tigranes of Armenia, who spent two decades as a Parthian hostage before being installed as a client king. It was also Mithridates II who received the first recorded Roman diplomatic mission to the Parthian court, around 96 BC — a meeting that unnerved Rome enough to become a point of senatorial debate.
Sellwood 27.1 belongs to his middle coinage, before the diadem portraits shifted toward the more elaborate late types.