Live auction - bgr_631616 - PARTHIA - PARTHIAN KINGDOM - VOLOGASES VI Drachme
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| Estimate : | 350 € |
| Price : | 175 € |
| Maximum bid : | 401 € |
| End of the sale : | 26 January 2021 14:33:51 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : Drachme
Date: c. 210-220
Mint name / Town : Ecbatane, Médie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,51 g.
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle pour ce type monétaire sur un flan bien centré des deux côtés. Beau buste du roi. Revers de style fin pour un type tardif. Jolie patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets mordorés et bleutés irisés. Conserve au droit la plus grande partie de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Buste de Vologèse VI à gauche, tête coiffée de la tiare avec oreillette, un bandeau simple, avec nœud qui tombe derrière la tête, la barbe triangulaire longue et pointue ; boucle à l’oreille ; derrière deux lettres.
Reverse
Reverse legend : LÉGENDE CORROMPUE, GRECQUE ET PEHLVI.
Reverse description : Archer assis à droite sur un trône, tenant un arc de la main droite ; au-dessous, un monogramme.
Commentary
Une des dernières frappes pour le royaume parthe.
Historical background
PARTHIA - PARTHIAN KINGDOM - VOLOGASES VI
(207-222)
Vologèse VI is the eldest son of Vologèse V (191-207) and the grandson of Vologèse IV (147-191). After the disastrous reign of his father and the invasion of the kingdom, with the capture of Ctesiphon by Septimius Severus in 198, Vologesis VI must now face the son of Septimius Severus, Caracalla, who leads from 215 a major campaign in East. Vologèse VI was saved only by the assassination of Caracalla by Macrinus in 217. The Roman danger averted, Vologèse who had already had to get rid of his brother Artaban IV (216-224) had to face a new competitor, Ardashir ( Artaxerxes), the Sassanid who dethroned his rival in 222 and may have him put to death six years later. A new empire is born.
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