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Parthian Beginnings
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...
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sulla80
- Apr 9, 2022
- 5 min
The End of Parthia
February 19, 197, the armies of Septimius Severus and Clodius Albinus clashed in Lugdunum (modern Lyon, France), and concluded the civil...
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sulla80
- Feb 24, 2022
- 3 min
Rome v. Parthia (AD 161-166)
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...
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sulla80
- Jan 22, 2022
- 3 min
Trajan Aims for Parthia
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...
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sulla80
- Dec 24, 2021
- 6 min
Parthian Invasion, 40 BC
The Parthians are mostly known from the writings of their Greek and Roman enemies - not the writers you would trust to document...
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sulla80
- Jan 21, 2021
- 3 min
A Parthian Usurper's Tetradrachm
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...
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sulla80
- Sep 11, 2020
- 4 min
Romans vs. Parthians
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...
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sulla80
- Sep 6, 2020
- 2 min
Arsakes XVI and the Third Mithridatic War
Attributing Parthian coins to a king and time period, can be complicated. This coin, 30.16, is assigned by Sellwood to an Unknown King...
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sulla80
- Sep 6, 2020
- 4 min
Sulla in Cappadocia: First Meeting with Parthia
This story of the first diplomatic contact between Rome and Parthia, is illustrated with three coins. The story begins around 101 BC when...
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sulla80
- Sep 5, 2020
- 2 min
Resources for Parthian Coins
I have been reading the The Sunrise Collection, Assar's intro on Parthian coins. The most referenced resource for Parthian coins is...
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sulla80
- Aug 27, 2020
- 3 min
Parthians: King Phraates IV and Son
I had been looking for a coin of Phraataces for a while. He was king of Parthia 2 BC to AD 4, son of Phraates IV and Musa who was given...
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sulla80
- Sep 23, 2018
- 2 min
Provenance
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...
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