Osroes I ruled during one of the most turbulent stretches of Parthian history, his reign overlapping directly with Trajan's eastern campaigns of 113–117 AD. Rome briefly seized Ctesiphon, deposed Osroes, and installed a puppet king — making coins struck in his name during those years documents of a displaced sovereignty minted away from the traditional capital. Ecbatana, the old Median royal seat, served as an alternative mint precisely because the western Parthian heartland was under Roman occupation.
Sellwood 80 is among the later die groupings for Osroes, attributed to the post-Roman-withdrawal phase of his reign.
Osroes I ruled during one of the most turbulent stretches of Parthian history, his reign overlapping directly with Trajan's eastern campaigns of 113–117 AD. Rome briefly seized Ctesiphon, deposed Osroes, and installed a puppet king — making coins struck in his name during those years documents of a displaced sovereignty minted away from the traditional capital. Ecbatana, the old Median royal seat, served as an alternative mint precisely because the western Parthian heartland was under Roman occupation.
Sellwood 80 is among the later die groupings for Osroes, attributed to the post-Roman-withdrawal phase of his reign.