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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2057144, member: 19463&quot;]I would guess Orodes III, Second Century AD van&#039;t Haaff page 131, type 16.1</p><p><br /></p><p>The reverse legend is odd in that the name YPWDHC reads correctly with the bottoms of the letters near the bust but BACI^EYK reads with the tops near Artemis so turning the coin 1/4 turn to the right so Artemis looks down makes both legends right side up.&nbsp; van&#039;t Haaff goes on to identify subtypes but I&#039;m not entirely clear on either his or the OP photo.&nbsp;&nbsp; Page 20 of his book (Catalog of Elymaean Coinage, CNG, 2007) lists all the kings by type and gives the ID of six earlier works which vary on which Orodes number issued this type and in what part of the 2nd century it belongs.&nbsp; Sear does give this as Orodes I.&nbsp; This book has a lot of pictures and a lot of information but a lot of it can be summed up with a giant &#039;don&#039;t know&#039;.&nbsp; A problem I&#039;m seeing is I&#039;m not sure how such an obscure series with so few names will be straightened out if it was not by such a nice book as this one.&nbsp; We might just need to accept the Type 16 ID and let it go at that.&nbsp; He devotes several pages to discussing some of the various arguments on chronology.&nbsp; I really should read those pages but the discussion may require me to be in a more scholarly mood than I have been recently.&nbsp; Who else owns the book?&nbsp; Did you read and understand it?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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