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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Parthicus, post: 24638195, member: 81887&quot;][ATTACH=full]1567522[/ATTACH] </p><p>Parthian Kingdom.&nbsp; AE (16 mm, 3.02 g).&nbsp; Arsakes II (Artabanos I) (c. 211- 185 BCE).&nbsp; Obverse:&nbsp; Beardless head of king left, wearing bashlyk.&nbsp; Reverse: Eagle right, Greek legend &quot;Arsak[ou]&quot; vertical on left side.&nbsp; Sellwood type 6 (unlisted reverse design).&nbsp; This coin: Pars Coins eSale 4 (June 16, 2023), lot 25.</p><p><br /></p><p>Arsakes II, who may have had the personal name Artabanos, was the son and successor of the first independent Parthian king, Arsakes I (c. 247-211 BCE).&nbsp; Arsakes I had carved out an independent kingdom from some eastern territory of the Seleucid empire.&nbsp; In 209 BCE Antiochos III defeated Arsakes II at the Battle of Mount Labus.&nbsp; As a result, Arsakes was forced to accept his status as a vassal of the Seleucids.&nbsp; This included being forced to stop issuing coins in his own name.&nbsp; Assar dates the silver and bronze coins of this type (Sellwood 6) to the first few years of Arsakes II&#039;s reign, before his defeat by Antiochos III, while coins of a revised design may be from after 190 BCE, after Antiochos was defeated by the Romans at the Battle of Magnesia and Arsakes felt more free to assert his independence.</p><p><br /></p><p>This reverse type (eagle right) is not listed in the standard catalogs of Sellwood or Shore, or in the Sunrise collection.&nbsp; However, the parthia.com website lists six examples in the database, making this a rare but not unknown type.&nbsp; Please post your related coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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