Drachm - Mithridates IV

Mithridates IV ruled during one of the Parthian dynasty's more turbulent succession crises, his reign sandwiched between the dominant Mithridates III and the eventual consolidation under Orodes II. His brief hold on power — contested, possibly co-regnal, and geographically limited — means the volume of coinage attributable to him is genuinely small. Sellwood 41.5 is among the more precisely documented varieties of his output, distinguished by specific diadem and earring treatments that specialists use to sequence the dies.