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Tetradrachm - Phraates V
| Issuer | Parthian Empire |
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| Year | 1 BC |
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| Value | Tetradrachm (4) |
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| Reverse lettering | [BACΙΛΕΩC BACΙΛΕΩΝ ΑΡ]CΑΚΟΥ [ΕΥ]ΕΡΓΕΤΟΥ ΔΙΚΑΙΟΥ [ΕΠΙΦ]ΑΝΟΥC [ΦΙΛΕΛ]ΛΗΝΟC |
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| Mint | Seleucia on the Tigris |
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Phraates V came to power after murdering his own father, Phraates IV, with the assistance of his mother Musa — a former Italian slave girl given to Phraates IV as a gift by Augustus. The two then married, a union so scandalous it triggered a Parthian aristocratic revolt that drove them both from the throne within a few years. This tetradrachm dates to that brief, turbulent co-reign.
Sellwood 57.5 is among the scarcer varieties of this short series, which closed well before the dynasty stabilized under Orodes III.