Parthians? Nope, never heard of 'em...
Almost all drachms, yes. The only Parthian drachms without a seated archer reverse are those of Vonones I as shown above by @Sulla80 , some rare...
Excellent write-up @Pavlos ! I don't have any Seleucid coins of Ekbatana, but the city was one of the most prolific Parthian mints, so how a...
This looks like a copy of a Korean "horse warrant" token. (Korea used Chinese written characters for most of its history.) These (well, the...
I heartily recommend Mary Renault's trilogy on Alexander (Fire From Heaven, The Persian Boy, and Funeral Games). Well-researched, and also...
@7Calbrey : Abgar V, whose biography you found, is from the early 1st century AD; Abgar X, on your coin, is about 200 years later (contemporary of...
Looks like Abgar X of Osrhoene with Gordian III. Here's one from my collection: [ATTACH]
On further review, the ruling on the field is changed... Reading the inscription in front of the portrait, I think I can make out K R Sh T,...
Here's my last ancient coin for 2018: [ATTACH] Dabuyid Ispahbads of Tabaristan. Farrukhan the Great (c.711-731 AD). AR hemidrachm (24 mm, 2.1...
I voted "Oriental Greek", just because that's where the Parthian coins are usually listed in auction catalogues, but I would have preferred the...
Numismatic authorities are seeking the following person for questioning: [ATTACH]
Hi @LaCointessa ! Glad to see you back again, it's been a while since you posted here. Hope you are doing well and will be visiting the forum...
The only collectible coins I usually find are in Coinstar reject bins (mostly various foreign coins, with an occasional silver Roosevelt dime)....
Nice, it looks like it still has most of the original silvering! Good luck with cleaning that coin, and let us know how it turns out.
For this post, I'm discussing two separate recent coin purchases: [ATTACH] 1. Parthian Kingdom. AR drachm. Phraates III (c.70-57 BC). Ekbatana...
It's from the Indian state of Kutch, dated 1934 AD/ 1990 VS (there is also a 1934 AD/ 1991 VS variety), denomination is 3 dokda, Y#57. A common...
Here's a sestertius of Vespasian with Roma reverse. I'm going with Vespasian's death because he (reportedly) managed to keep his jocular wit...
One of my coins has not yet arrived, so I had to use the seller's photo (see below). As always, the ordering is not very precise. [ATTACH] 1....
Thanks for posting this. I collect Roman coins with references to Parthia but was not aware of this type, now I have something new to search for!
Photos are blurry, but from what I can see the piece looks suspiciously cast. I hope you didn't spend much on it. (And I also recommend posting...
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