ridiculously high quality

This Parthian coin is pretty amazing- who collects Parthians, and what do you have to say about them?
http://www.vcoins.com/ancient/nbnumismatics/store/viewItem.asp?idProduct=907&large=0

All I know about Parthians is their mounted archery technique.

 

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Hello,

I'm not a Parthian coins specialist, I have only a few of them. This one is a nice tetradrachm of Mithradates II, not exceptionnal, but very nice, and, I would say, in the price range we encounter them usually. V coins sellers are IMO very reliable, generally speaking

Cucumbor

 

truly an outstanding coin...

 

I do have an Orodes I, if I were going to collect more I would stick to the earlier kings like the Mithradates II you show, the portraits are many times higher quality than the later issues, say those after 0 CE. Too bad they are so expensive.

 

And I think I may have misspoken in that by "high quality," I wasn't referring to its condition (though nice) but more the design and execution seem of a high level for the time period, and given what (little) I know of the Parthians (nomadic roots?)

Ye who collect these, what should we know about Parthian coinage? Where were the mints?

 

Here is a useful site for an overview of Parthian coinage.

http://www.parthia.com/parthia_coins.htm

 

What a beautiful coin that tells a story.

Bruce

 

thanks for the link

 

Very nice. I'm only really interested in Vardanes I (I have about 8 of them), but I've bought some earlier ones aswell.

 

What is it about Vardanes I that does it for you?

 

I'm not actually completely sure myself ! He had a pretty interesting reign, but was a true machiavellian, if Tactics is to be believed. I bought a tetradrachm last december, and I bought the other 7 coins seperately in the beginning of this year.