Live auction - bgr_431886 - PARTHIA - PARTHIAN KINGDOM - MITHRIDATES I Drachme
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| Estimate : | 750 € |
| Price : | 420 € |
| Maximum bid : | 440 € |
| End of the sale : | 13 June 2017 14:25:19 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : Drachme
Date: c. 171-138 AC.
Mint name / Town : Hécatompylos
Metal : silver
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,71 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan très large et irrégulier bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait inhabituel. Joli revers de style fin. Très jolie patine de médaillier gris foncé avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé de Mithridates Ier à gauche, imberbe, coiffé du bashlik.
Reverse
Reverse description : Le roi à droite est assis sur l’omphalos, tenant un arc de sa main droite.
Reverse legend : BASILEWS/ MEGALOU/ARS-AKOU.
Reverse translation : (du grand Roi Arsace).
Commentary
Après Mithridates Ier, le bashlik disparaît du monnayage arsacide et sera remplacé par le diadème ou la tiare.
Historical background
PARTHIA - PARTHIAN KINGDOM - MITHRIDATES I
(171-138 BC)
Phraates I had several sons (and daughters), but he chose his younger brother, Mithridates I, as his successor because he appreciated his qualities. We can deduce that the sovereign had acquired absolute power, being able to afford not to follow the tradition which reserved the throne for the eldest son. Mithridates first undertook an expedition to the east, taking back from the powerful Greco-Bactrian Empire the lands ceded under Arsaces II. Then he turned west and took Media from the Seleucids (148 BC). This first war of conquest gave him access to Mesopotamia, which would be for several centuries the privileged battlefield between the Parthians (then the Sassanids) and the Seleucids, then the Romans. Within a few years, Mithridates I had raised Parthia to the rank of a great power..
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