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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 7858168, member: 99456&quot;]Glad to see a Parthian coin surface - Historia Augusta is characteristically colorful in describing Lucius:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Verus, however, after he had come to Syria, lingered amid the debaucheries of Antioch and Daphne and busied himself with gladiatorial bouts and hunting. And yet, for waging the Parthian war through his legates, he was acclaimed Imperator, while meantime Marcus was at all hours keeping watch over the workings of the state, and, though reluctantly and sorely against his will, but nevertheless with patience, was enduring the debauchery of his brother.&quot;</p><p>- Historia Augusta, <a href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Historia_Augusta/Marcus_Aurelius/1*.html#8.1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Historia_Augusta/Marcus_Aurelius/1*.html#8.1" rel="nofollow"><u>The Life of Marcus Aurelius, 8.1</u></a></p><p><br /></p><p>This Vologases IV has a nice provenance.&nbsp; It is one of 57 purchased by Bono Simonetta a few years before 1971 in Beirut, Lebanon. Part of a small treasure that was found in Aradus (Arwad, Syria). He published a short note in <a href="http://www.socnumit.org/doc/rin/RIN1971.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.socnumit.org/doc/rin/RIN1971.pdf" rel="nofollow">Rivista Italiana Numismatica (RIN) 1971</a>, vol. 73, p. 57-62, &quot;Un interessante tesoretto di tetradrammi di Vologeses III&quot;.&nbsp; (More <a href="https://www.sullacoins.com/post/parthian-vologases-iv" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.sullacoins.com/post/parthian-vologases-iv" rel="nofollow">here</a>)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1354246[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Kings of Parthia, Vologases IV,</b> AD 147-191, BI Tetradrachm, 26mm, 12.95g, 12h, Seleukeia on the Tigris, year ΠANHM BΦV 492 of the Seleucid Era (June AD 180)</p><p><b>Obv:</b> Diademed and draped bust left., wearing tiara; B behind</p><p><b>Rev: </b>Vologases seated left on throne, Tyche standing right before him, presenting a diadem and holding sceptre, month below. Sellwood 84.83. VF</p><p><b>Ref: </b>Sellwood 84.83 ΠANHM BΦV[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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