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Drachm - Vonones I
| Issuer | Parthian Empire |
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| Year | 8-12 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Obverse description | Diademed bust of Vonones I facing left, wearing a tiara adorned with a row of pellets and bound with a diadem, from which long loose ends fall behind the neck. The king's beard is rendered in fine striated lines, and a circular earring is visible. A Greek legend surrounds the effigy in the field. |
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| Obverse lettering | ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΟΝΩΝΟΥ |
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Vonones I had spent decades as a Roman hostage before the Parthian nobility, dissatisfied with Phraates IV's other successors, called him back to claim the throne around 8 AD. The experiment failed badly. His Roman manners and habits alienated the aristocracy almost immediately, and Artabanus II drove him out within a few years. He fled first to Armenia, then to Syria, where he died under Roman custody around 19 AD — never having consolidated any meaningful hold on either kingdom.
Sellwood 60.6 belongs to his brief Parthian phase, before the Armenian coinage of his exile.