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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;stlnats, post: 25376948, member: 41066&quot;]I really like the Parthian coinage since their history is so intertwined with Rome.&nbsp; Over the years I&#039;ve accumulated over a 100 of the little beauties but find them increasingly frustrating.&nbsp; While some of the tetradrachma are dated, most of the coins are anonymous and not identified to a specific ruler.&nbsp; Worse yet, with new discoveries of coins and subsequent research, many of the attributions have changed only to be rechanged again to something else.&nbsp; The 1980 Sellwood seems to be generally used for basic ids, but Parthia.com has an attribution correlation chart which correlates each Sellwood number to one or more of 8 other references (and their attribution of the issuer).&nbsp; And of course, not all of those attributions are agreed upon by the various references.</p><p><br /></p><p>I started out to assemble a one (or more) per ruler set.&nbsp; Really not possible and each time I look at the coins, I want to check and see if I gained or lost a king since the last visit.&nbsp; So... mostly just focus on Sellwood numbers and attributions (except for the most egregious changes), interesting portraits or a few variety sets that are fun and just splash around in that Egyptian river (denial).</p><p><br /></p><p>A tetradrachm of Phraates IV (at least today) who returned the legionary standards to Rome.&nbsp; Gotta love that portrait.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1624635[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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