2025 has been a better than average year across the board. 2024 wrapped up with surgery and a year later I am fully recovered with a very low chance of recurrence. On the coin front, I sold more than 150 coins and didn't add very many. I may have been more selective in buying this year - opting for quality over quantity - but it also feels like there were fewer coins available that I was interested in. Still no shortage of nice coins added this year. There is a long list o

Attributing Parthian coins to a king and time period, can be complicated. This coin, 30.16, is assigned by Sellwood to an Unknown King (II), and by Shore as 134 it is mapped to Orodes I , and Sear maps it to Gotarzes I , and Mitchiner to Mithradates II , and Wroth to Artabanus II , and Gardner, Plate II #9 , to Phraates II . So clearly there has been some discussion over the years about who this type belongs to. Aside from the question of “who” is on this coin, this Parthian