Silver drachm with portrait of Mithradates I (Arscaces VI).
Silver drachm with portrait of Mithradates I (Arscaces VI).
Place of OriginParthia
Date174-136 BCE
DimensionsDiam. 3/4 in. (1.9 cm)
MediumCoin; silver
ClassificationMetalwork
Credit LineGift of Carl B. Spitzer
Object number
1934.6
Not on View
DescriptionObverse: Bust of Mithradates I, facing left.
Reverse: Arsaces the Great, seated to right holding a strung bow in his hand.
Published ReferencesHead, Barclay V., Historia Numorum, Oxford, 1887, p. 693.
Lindsay, John, A View of the History and Coinage of the Parthians, Cork, 1852, p. 166, pl. I, no. 17.
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