The attribution of this type has shifted over decades of scholarship — once assigned to Orodes I, Sellwood's sequence now places it under Mithridates III, though the precise regnal boundaries between these rulers remain genuinely contested. Seleucia on the Tigris was the most commercially active mint in the Parthian system, a former Seleucid city that the Arsacids never fully transformed culturally, and its output during the 80s BC reflects ongoing tensions between Hellenistic civic traditions and Parthian dynastic ambitions.
The attribution of this type has shifted over decades of scholarship — once assigned to Orodes I, Sellwood's sequence now places it under Mithridates III, though the precise regnal boundaries between these rulers remain genuinely contested. Seleucia on the Tigris was the most commercially active mint in the Parthian system, a former Seleucid city that the Arsacids never fully transformed culturally, and its output during the 80s BC reflects ongoing tensions between Hellenistic civic traditions and Parthian dynastic ambitions.