bgr_400836 - PARTHIAN KINGDOM - VOLOGASES III Drachme
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Price : 175.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2018)
Price : 175.00 €
Type : Drachme
Date: c. 120-147
Mint name / Town : Ecbatane, Médie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,78 g.
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan irrégulier, court sur la légende de revers. Très beau portrait de Vologèse III. Joli revers de style fin. Patine de collection
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Buste de Vologèse III à gauche, tête nue un bandeau triple, avec nœud qui tombe derrière la tête, la chevelure tombant sur la nuque, la barbe courte et pointue ; pendentif à l’oreille.
Reverse
Reverse description : Archer assis à droite sur un trône, tenant un arc de la main droite ; sous l’arc, un monogramme.
Reverse legend : BASILEWS/ BASILEWN/ ARSAKOU/ DIKAIOU/ EUERGETOU/ EPIFANOUS/ FILELLHNOS.
Reverse translation : (Roi des rois Arsace, bienfaiteur, juste, glorieux, philhellène).
Commentary
Revers stylisé.
Historical background
PARTHIAN KINGDOM - VOLOGASES III
(105-147)
Vologese III succeeded Pacorus II. He had to face the Parthian campaign of Trajan (115-117) and had to flee his capital Ctesiphon which was taken and ravaged. He had to accept a Roman protectorate over Armenia and the carving up of the kingdom with the creation of the Roman provinces of Adiabene and Mesopotamia. He had to face the usurpations of Osroes I (109-129) and Phartapapastes (116). He died during the reign of Antoninus Pius (138-161).
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