Sellwood 8.3

Mithradates I · 171 - 138 BCE

Date171 - 138 BCE

AuthorityMithradates I

MaterialSilver

Obverse Typebeardless head left, wearing bashlyk; circular border of pellets

Reverse LegendΑΡΣΑΚΟΥ

Reverse Typeelephant walking right; no border; above elephant, single-word

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ANS Specimens0

Other ReferencesSellwood 1971: 8, Shore: 6, 22, 23, Sear: 7326, 7336, Mitchiner ACW: 463 (Unattributed), Wroth BMC: p1,1,2&3; p2,2 (Tiridates I & son Arsaces), Gardner: Pl. I:1&2 (Arsaces/Tiridates I), Petrowicz: p5,2 (Tiridates I)

parthia.com Specimens40

PDC11979, 27954, 38755, 38756

Reign Datesc. 171 - 138 BCE

Sellwood Main Type8

Sellwood TypeSellwood 8.3

Sunrise AuthorityPhriapatius

Sunrise Datesc. 191 - 176 BCE

Sunrise ReferenceSunrise 248-250 (Phriapatius)

Variantsvariant (elephant head left), variant (elephant head right), variant (figure stands right with spear and shield), variant (legend i), variant (legend read from outside)

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