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Drachm - Vologases IV Ecbatana
| Issuer | Parthian Empire |
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| Year | 147-191 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Beardless archer, depicted as the dynastic founder-hero, seated right upon a throne and clad in a kyrbasia and flowing cloak. The figure holds a strung bow in the right hand, with no pellet above the bow in the field; monogram 26 appears below the bow. A Pahlavi inscription occupies the field alongside the Greek epigraph classified by Sellwood as type iv. |
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| Reverse lettering | VoLGaŠI MaLKa (Translation: King Vologases.) |
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Vologases IV ruled the Parthian Empire through one of its most turbulent stretches — his reign included the catastrophic Roman invasion under Lucius Verus in 161–166 AD, which ended with the sack of Ctesiphon and a plague carried back westward that killed millions across the Roman world. The Ecbatana mint, ancient even by Parthian standards, served as a secondary striking facility and its output from this reign tends toward thinner flans with characteristic die-axis inconsistencies well documented across the Sellwood 84 series.