Live auction - bgr_482144 - PARTHIA - KINGDOM OF PARTHIA - PHRAATACES or PHRAATES V Tetradrachme

PARTHIA - KINGDOM OF PARTHIA - PHRAATACES or PHRAATES V Tetradrachme MS

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Estimate :	1 200 €
Price :	880 €
Maximum bid :	950 €
End of the sale :	05 June 2018 14:21:36
bidders :	2 bidders

Type : Tetradrachme

Date: an 311

Mint name / Town : Séleucie du Tigre, Babylonie

Metal : billon

Diameter : 27,5 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 9,54 g.

Rarity : R1

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle sur un flan bien centré des deux côtés, court sur la légende de revers. Portrait de toute beauté, de haut relief, bien venu à la frappe. Très joli revers finement détaillé. Patine gris foncé avec des reflets métalliques dorés. Conserve la plus grande partie de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine

Catalogue references :

Sellwood57 (250£) - GIC.5759 (175£) - BMC.-

Predigree :

Cet exemplaire provient de la vente de Royan d’août 1990 (expert, M. Richard) et de la collection Niels

Obverse

Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.

Obverse description : Buste de Phraataces à gauche, tête nue avec un bandeau triple, sans nœud qui tombe derrière la tête, la chevelure crantée couvrant l’oreille, la barbe courte et pointue ; une verrue sur le front ; de chaque côté une petite Niké le couronnant.

Reverse

Reverse description : Archer assis à droite, tenant un arc de la main droite.

Reverse legend : BASILEWS/ BASILEWN/ ARSAKOU// EUERGETOU/ DIKAIOU// EPIFANOUS/ FILLENINOS// AIT .

Reverse translation : (Roi des rois Arsace, bienfaiteur, juste, glorieux, philhellène).

Commentary

Poids léger. Sur cet exemplaire le mois est hors champ sur la légende d’exergue. Néanmoins l’état de conservation est tout à fait exceptionnel. C’est la première fois que nous présentons un exemplaire de ce monarque pour le tétradrachme.

Historical background

PARTHIA - KINGDOM OF PARTHIA - PHRAATACES or PHRAATES V

(2 BC - 4 AD)

In 24 BC, Augustus had returned the son of Phraates IV, captured by General Tiridates. At the same time, the emperor had offered him an Italian slave, Musa. Four years later, the King of Kings returned the ensigns and surviving prisoners from the Carrhae Disaster of 53 BC and that of Marc Antony of Phraapa. This event had an important impact in the Roman world. Musa eventually got married to Phraates IV and bore him a son Phraataces. Musa then urged the king to send his other sons and their families to Rome, including the future Vonones I. Musa and his son assassinated the old king. Phraataces became Phraates V then married his mother. He was overthrown by a palace revolution. History then loses track of Musa and his son, who were murdered or who managed to flee to Syria..