Drachm ca. 100-50 B.C. Parthian Numismatists - the scholars who study coins - refer to the front’ side of the coin, which usually features the head of a person or god, as the obverse,’ and the back’ side as the reverse.’On the obverse of this silver coin, a bust of the king faces to the left. He has a long beard and wears a domed hat with earflaps (called a tiara’) with a diadem (the headband worn by victorious athletes in ancient Greece) tied over it. The tiara is decorated with three semicircles of dots around a star. A border of dots surrounds the image.The reverse shows a seated man facing right. He wears striped sleeves and trousers under a cloak, as well as a pointed hat with earflaps and a diadem and heeled boots with laces. In his hand he holds a bow with the bowstring upwards. He sits on a high-backed throne. A Greek inscription, reading "of great king Arsaces the sole ruler, father-loving, renowned and Greek-loving" surrounds the man.This coin was struck by an unknown Pa