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Message:: [QUOTE="DBDc80, post: 3077226, member: 84525"]Beautiful coins everyone! Thank you for the kind words! Can anyone chime in on their speculation as to why, perhaps, this monarch is simply known as Arsaces XVI or "unknown king". It is an intrigue that my interest is piqed by. Just odd that this ruler reigned (or is suspected to have reigned) for this length of time (Roughly 15 years) and we really dont know his name. I dont know, interesting for sure. As was mentioned earlier, there is not much extant insofar as written Parthian history, perhaps we may never have the "proper name" for Arsaces XVI. However, what we do know about many Parthian monarchs is shifty, with occasional changes and assignments in who issued what coins when. On occassion, long held beliefs about rulers assigned to specific coins changes (the reassignment of the 78 series drachms from Vologasses III to Pacorus I a great example) so who knows....maybe, just maybe one day we will have a name for some of the "unknown kings" (there were, not one, but three).[/QUOTE]