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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 4676861, member: 19463"]There is enough confusion on these that the safe answer is to call them all Arsakes. I am not all that convinced that all the new attributions are valid so the easy answer is to attribute the coins to Sellwood numbers and make notes where the names don't match up. I only have four tetradrachms and prefer the drachms and bronzes which are every bit as confusing.</p><p>My first Parthian coin of any type came to me in 1987 as Sellwood 30.2 which I have never updated. Condition does not help. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1151767[/ATTACH] </p><p>Phraates IV - The H of the year date 288 is off flan at the left but, as I understand it, that is the only reading with Daiciov (May) month. Sellwood 52.3. I regret that coins with the month on flan have to lose so much of the other legends. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1151768[/ATTACH] </p><p>Vardanes I June 43AD (DKT Pannpov)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1151769[/ATTACH] </p><p>Vologases IV year 464 (Novenber 152AD) Sellwood 84.13</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1151770[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 4676861, member: 19463"]There is enough confusion on these that the safe answer is to call them all Arsakes. I am not all that convinced that all the new attributions are valid so the easy answer is to attribute the coins to Sellwood numbers and make notes where the names don't match up. I only have four tetradrachms and prefer the drachms and bronzes which are every bit as confusing. My first Parthian coin of any type came to me in 1987 as Sellwood 30.2 which I have never updated. Condition does not help. [ATTACH=full]1151767[/ATTACH] Phraates IV - The H of the year date 288 is off flan at the left but, as I understand it, that is the only reading with Daiciov (May) month. Sellwood 52.3. I regret that coins with the month on flan have to lose so much of the other legends. [ATTACH=full]1151768[/ATTACH] Vardanes I June 43AD (DKT Pannpov) [ATTACH=full]1151769[/ATTACH] Vologases IV year 464 (Novenber 152AD) Sellwood 84.13 [ATTACH=full]1151770[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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