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English: Coin of the Parthian king Orodes I. Elymaïs kingdom bronze drachma of king Orodes I (aka Orodes II of Parthia) and Early 1st century. The Elymean kingdom was located in the south of the antic Kurdestan, corresponding to the actual iranian province of Khuzestan. This kingdom enjoyed a partial independance under the ruling of the Parthian empire, sometime, Elymean princes/kings were the parthian kings themselve. Orodes is schown with a side representation, looking left, static, undynamic, the execution is rustic corresponding to the general trends of the Elymean pictural art at this ttime. The bearded king wears a diadem with ribbons on the neck, an anchor lay at his back, above which a crescent and a star. Geometric figures on the reverse side. USB microscope capture of a personal collection coin, May 2011.
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