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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Parthicus, post: 3077009, member: 81887&quot;][USER=51347]@Alegandron[/USER]: Thanks, but the OP coin belongs to [USER=84525]@DBDc80[/USER], not to me.&nbsp; It&#039;s a very cool coin, and I&#039;d certainly welcome it in my collection, but it isn&#039;t mine.</p><p><br /></p><p>Re: &quot;Shah&quot; as the title for king:&nbsp; Shah is the Persian word for king, just like Greek Basileos and Semitic Malik.&nbsp; The Parthians had their own language (called Parthian, sensibly enough) which is not so well understood, due to a shortage of documents and inscriptions.&nbsp; Most coin inscriptions use the Greek title Basileos Basilewn (King of Kings).&nbsp; However, a few late issues give the name of the king in Aramaic script and the title MLK (Malik).&nbsp; It is not clear whether the reader was expected to read this as the Aramaic word, or if it was a place-holder and the correct title in Parthian (or whatever other language) could be inserted.&nbsp;&nbsp; TL,DR: Just call him &quot;King&quot; and you&#039;ll be fine.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Precisely.&nbsp; Most of our contemporaneous records of the Parthians are from Latin and Greek historians in the Roman Empire, who tended to be biased against the Parthians and sometimes had limited information.&nbsp; No original Parthian historical literature has survived; very little Parthian writing has survived at all.&nbsp; Historians have had to rely on archeological traces (including coins) and careful detective-work to reconstruct Parthian history.&nbsp; For example, many of the changes to the king order that have been proposed by G.R.F. Assar are based on a collection of Parthian-period Babylonian astronomical tablets that incidentally mention the names and dates of rulers.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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