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bgr_525610 - PARTHIAN KINGDOM - PHRAATES III Drachme

PARTHIAN KINGDOM - PHRAATES III Drachme AU
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Type : Drachme
Date: c. 62/61 - 58/57 AC.
Mint name / Town : Rhagae
Metal : silver
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 4,08 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et ovale bien centré des deux côtés. Très beau portrait de Phraates III richement paré. Revers finement détaillé, de frappe légèrement faible sur les légendes. Belle patine de collection avec des reflets dorés. Conserve une partie de son brillant de frappe et une partie de son coupant d’origine
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Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Buste couronné, diadémé et drapé de Phraates III à gauche, coiffé de la tiare avec la barbe mi-longue.

Reverse


Reverse description : Le roi à droite est assis sur un trône à dossier, tenant un arc de la main droite ; monogramme au-dessus de l’arc.
Reverse legend : BASILEWS// MEG-ALOU// ARSAKOU// EUERGETOU// EPIFANOUS// KAI FILELLHNOS/ (PRG).
Reverse translation : (Grand roi Arsace, benfaiteur, glorieux et philhellène).

Commentary


La tiare est décorée d’un triple rang de perles et d’une corne.

Historical background


PARTHIAN KINGDOM - PHRAATES III

(70-57 BC)

Phraates III is the grandson of Mithridates I and the son of Sinatruces (77-70 BC).. -VS. ), who became king when he was over eighty years old. He is also the nephew of Phraates II (138-127 BC).. -VS. ). He would have succeeded his father in 70 BC.. -VS. He found himself immediately confronted with the Roman power. Tigranes, king of Armenia and Syria was finally defeated by Lucullus in 69 BC.. -VS. Lucullus, whose luxury of the table remained proverbial, bogged down in the East and was finally replaced by Pompey who annexed the province of Syria in 63 BC.. -VS. Armenia was in the Arsacid orbit and the Romans planned to annex it which could seem inadmissible in the eyes of the Parthian monarch. Diplomatic and economic relations had been rather good with the Romans until then.. On the other hand, Phraates had to face the rebellion of Darius of Media Atropene in 70 BC.. -VS. , Arsacid prince by his mother. Finally his sons, Mithridates III and Orodes II revolted against the paternal authority of Phraates III and ended up murdering him.. On the death of the Arsacid ruler, a major conflict with the insatiable Romans, who dreamed of seizing the kingdom's wealth and controlling the silk and spice routes, became inevitable..

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