There are multiple versions of the story of Pandora. Hesiod, who is thought to have lived between 750 and 650 BC, describes the creation...

"I compelled the Parthians to restore to me the spoils and standards of three Roman armies and to ask as suppliants for the friendship of...

This week's coin of interest is a 13.24g tetradrachm of Artabanus II (also know as Artabanus III and IV by various historians). This...

This post was originally published in August 27, 2020 and has been updated with additional coins, references and images. I had been...

After the death of Alexander the Great in June of 323 BC, his generals fought each other and divided up his empire. Seleukos I took the...

February 19, 197, the armies of Septimius Severus and Clodius Albinus clashed in Lugdunum (modern Lyon, France), and concluded the civil...

I wrote an earlier post on Rome v. Parthia - in May 53 BC, when at Carrhae, Mesopotamia a member of the Sūrēn (Surena) family won a...

At the end of the reign of Rabbel II, King of Nabatea (78-106 AD), in 106 AD, Trajan annexed his kingdom and created the Roman province...

The Parthians are mostly known from the writings of their Greek and Roman enemies - not the writers you would trust to document...

My coin for today is an unusual tetradrachm of Parthia, from a few years after the end of the Roman republic and the beginning of the...

After a number of diversions in Anatolia, and a bit of a Roman Republican drought, this week I added another Roman Republican coin to my...

Attributing Parthian coins to a king and time period, can be complicated. This coin, 30.16, is assigned by Sellwood to an Unknown King...

This story of the first diplomatic contact between Rome and Parthia, is illustrated with three coins. The story begins around 101 BC when...

I have been reading the The Sunrise Collection, Assar's intro on Parthian coins. The most referenced resource for Parthian coins is...

I often ask for provenance for the coins that I have purchased. Only rarely do I get anything and then it is something like from "a...