Tetradrachm - Vologases IV

Vologases IV ruled the Parthian Empire through one of its most pressured periods — his reign saw Roman forces under Avidius Cassius sack both Seleucia and Ctesiphon in 165 AD, though this particular issue predates that catastrophe by over a decade. Parthian tetradrachms of this reign were struck at Seleucia on the Tigris, the empire's primary mint for silver-standard coinage, and the billon composition reflects a long, slow debasement that had been underway since the first century AD.

Sellwood 84.16 falls within a tightly documented die sequence for Vologases IV, with Shore and Sunrise attributions aligning closely on this emission.