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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Parthicus, post: 2553379, member: 81887&quot;]Well, if you had to fall off the wagon, at least it was with a nice Parthian.&nbsp; I&#039;ve noticed that coins of Osroes II seem to be a lot more common than one would expect when compared to other short-lived Parthian kings like Vonones II or Parthamaspates.&nbsp; Maybe he was alive and issuing coins for longer than the historians believed, or maybe his supporters got very nervous after his defeat and quickly buried the metallic evidence of their former allegiance, leading to a lot of hoards for future generations of collectors.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This reminded me of when I first was getting interested in Parthian coins around 20 years ago.&nbsp; I was looking through a CNG catalog and admiring some early coins of Mithradates II.&nbsp; Then, later on the same page I saw for the first time a late drachm, probably Osroes II or Vologases IV, and literally had to laugh at how cartoonishly devolved the later coins looked when compared side-by-side to the earlier.&nbsp; That beard- it&#039;s just a bunch of straight lines!&nbsp; Of course, now I have learned to appreciate the later artistic style for what it is, but at the time the contrast was quite jarring.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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