Drachm ca. A.D. 110-129 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 rendered with vertical lines, and wears a diadem (the headband worn by victorious athletes in ancient Greece). He also wears a torque or necklace around his neck. He has curly hair, rendered as two circular groups of dots, one of top of his head and the other at the back of his head. His large eye is represented by a raised dot between two thick lines which serve as his eyelid. 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 diadem, of which only the ends are visible at the back of his head. In his hand he holds a bow with the bowstring upwards. A cross and horizontal line b
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