Drachm - Mithridates II

Mithridates II ruled the Parthian Empire at its territorial apex, having pushed west into Mesopotamia and east toward the borders of the expanding Kushan sphere. It was during his reign — around 96 BC — that the first known diplomatic contact between Parthia and Rome occurred, when the Roman general Sulla met a Parthian ambassador on the Euphrates, a meeting the Roman sources later inflated into a grand encounter of equals.

Sellwood 28.2 belongs to a late group within his coinage, distinguished by a specific die treatment of the diadem and neck truncation that separates it from the earlier Sellwood 27 issues.