bgr_332790 - PARTHIA - PARTHIAN KINGDOM - MITHRIDATES I Drachme
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Item sold on our e-shop (2014)
Price : 150.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2014)
Price : 150.00 €
Type : Drachme
Date: n.d.
Mint name / Town : Hécatompylos
Metal : silver
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 4,08 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale, bien centré des deux côtés. Très beau portrait au droit avec la stemmata bien visible. Revers de style fin de haut relief. Belle patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets mordorés. Conserve une partie de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Buste de Mithridates Ier à gauche, tête nue avec un bandeau simple, sans nœud qui tombe derrière la tête, la chevelure en rouleaux tombant sur la nuque, la barbe longue et pointue ; le tout entrouré de la stemma (bandelette de laine).
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 : (Grand roi Arsace).
Commentary
Voir ligne d’exergue au revers incurvée.
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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