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Numismatic Literature NUMISMATIC ARTICLES – ORIENTAL GREEK & CENTRAL ASIAN GENERAL Frye, R.N. “The Aramaic Alphabet in the East” in JIAAA 1 (2006). Senior, R.C. “Notes on a few Ancient Coins” in ONS Newsletter 155 (Winter 1998). Widemann, F. “Contremarques du monnayage Indo-Grec” in QT 1977. MacDowall, D.W. “The eras of Demetrius, Eucratides and Azes” in Res Orientales XVII (2007). Falk, H. “Ancient Indian Eras: An Overview” in BAI 21 (2007). Rezakhani, K. “Arsacid, Elymaean, and Persid Coinage” in D.T. Potts, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Iran (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2013). Coloru, O. “I Am Your Father! Dynasties and Dynastic Legitimacy on Pre-Islamic Coinage between Iran and Northwest India” in Electrum 22 (2015). KINGS of PARTHIA General Rezakhani, K. “Arsacid, Elymaean, and Persid Coinage” in D.T. Potts, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Iran (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2013). Coloru, O. “I Am Your Father! Dynasties and Dynastic Legitimacy on Pre-Islamic Coinage between Iran and Northwest India” in Electrum 22 (2015). Mint studies Sellwood, D.G. “Parthian Mints” in JNFA 4.3 (November 1975). -----. “Parthian Mint Operations” in Essays Carson. Senior, R.C. “Parthian die engravers” in ONS Newsletter 149 (Summer 1996). Winkelmann, S. “Waffen und Waffenträger auf parthischen Münzen” in Parthica 8 (2006). Sellwood, D.G. “A Die-Count for a Group of Parthian Drachms” in Studies Price. -----. “Some Politic Alterations in the Parthian Series” in Essays Baldwin. Loginov, S.D., and A.B. Nikitin. “Parthian Coins from Margiana: Numismatics and History” in BAI 10 (1996). Nikitin, A.B. “Early Parthian coins from Margiana” in V.S. Curtis, et al., eds., The Art and Archaeology of Ancient Persia (London & New York, 1998). Gorin, A. “Parthian Coins from Kampyrtepa” in Anabasis 1 (2010). Denomination studies Sellwood, D.G. “Parthian Gold Coins” in PICN 11. Assar, G.R.F. “Some Remarks Concerning Parthian Gold Coins: the Parthian Calendars” in PICN 11. Brindley, J.C. “The Organisation of the Parthian Bronze Coinage” in PICN8. Simonetta, A.M. “Overstrikes, mules, modified dies and retouched coins in the Arsacid coinage: a discussion of the evidence” in Parthica 8 (2006). Regnal studies (Chronologically sorted) Assar, G.R.F. “Moses of Chorene and the early Parthian chronology” in Electrum 11 (2006). -----. “Genealogy and coinage of the early Parthian rulers - I” in Parthica 6 (2005). [offprint] -----. “Genealogy and coinage of the early Parthian rulers – II” in Parthica 7 (2005). -----. “Parthian Calendars at Babylon and Seleucia on the Tigris” in Iran XLI (2003). Abgarians, M.T. and D. Sellwood. “A Hoard of Early Parthian Drachms” in NC 1971. Assar, G.R.F., & M.G. Bagloo. “An Early Parthian ‘Victory’ Coin” in Parthica 8 (2006). Simonetta, B. “Sui Chalkoi di Arsaces II” in SM February 1988. Assar, G.R.F. “A revised Parthian chronology of the period 165-91 BC” in Electrum 11 (2006). Dabrowa, E. “The Conquests of Mithridates I and the Numismatic Evidence” in Parthica 8 (2006). Gaslain, J. “Mithridates 1er et Suse” in Anabasis 1 (2010). Simonetta, B. “Osservazioni sulle Monetazione Partica in Bronzo da Mithradates I a Phraates IV” in SNR 1982. Rtveladze, E.V. “Parthians in the Oxus Valley. Struggle for the Great Indian Road” in Anabasis 2 (2011). [Mithradates I to Orodes II] Simonetta, B. “Un Tetradramma Inedito di Artabanus I di Parthia” in QT 1975. Olbrycht, M.J. “The Early Reign of Mithradates II the Great in Parthia” in Anabasis 1 (2010). Simonetta, B. “Problemi di Numismatica Partica: Tetradramma di Mitridate II o di Re Ignoto? Osservazioni sulle Monete Coniate fra il 90 ed il 70 A.C.” in RIN 1974. Sellwood, D.G. “Some Politic Alterations in the Parthian Series” in Essays Baldwin. Dobbins, K.W. “The Successors of Mithradates II of Parthia” in NC 1975. Simonetta, A.M., and D.G. Sellwood. “Again on the Parthian Coinage from Mithradates II to Orodes II” in QT 1978. Dilmaghani, J. “Parthian Coins from Mithradates II to Orodes II” in NC 1986. Weiskopf, M. “The Kuh Dasht Hoard and the Parthian ‘Dark Age’” in ANSMN 26 (1981). Assar, G.R.F. “The Genealogy of the Parthian King Sinatruces (93/2-69/8 BC)” in JCMNS June 2005. -----. “A Revised Parthian Chronology of the Period 91-55 BC” in Parthica 8 (2006). Simonetta, B. “The Coinage of the so-called Parthian ‘Dark Age’ Revisited” in Electrum 11 (2009). Vardanyan, R. “Some remarks on the arrangement of the Parthian ‘Dark Age’ coin series” in Parthica 8 (2006). Assar, G.R.F. “Some Remarks on the Chronology and Coinage of the Parthian ‘Dark Age’” in Electrum 11 (2009). Mørkholm, O. “The Parthian Coinage of Seleucia on the Tigris, c. 90-55 B.C.” in NC 1980. Sellwood, D.G. “The Parthian Coins of Gotarzes I, Orodes I, and Sinatruces” in NC 1962. Malter, J.L. “The ‘Unknown King’ : Some additional hoard data” in JNFA 1.2 (February-March 1971). Simonetta, B. “Problemi di Numismatica Partica: Osservazioni sulle Attribuzioni delle Monete Partiche Coniate fra il 70 ed il 57 A.C.” in SNR 1975. Waggoner, N.M. “The Coinage of Phraates III of Parthia: Addenda” in Studies Miles. (offprint) Sellwood, D., and A.M. Simonetta. “Notes on the coinage and history of the Arsacids from the advent of Orodes II to the end of the reign of Phraates IV” in QT XXXV (2006). Frendo, D. “Roman Expansion and the Graeco-Iranian World: Carrhae, Its Explanation and Aftermath in Plutarch” in BAI 17 (2003). Simonetta, B. “On Some Tetradrachms of Orodes II and the Probable Issues of Pacorus I” in NC 1978. -----. “Sul Probabile Significato di un Monogramma su Alcune Dramme Partiche” in QT 1976. Sellwood, D.G. “The ‘Victory’ Drachms of Phraates IV” in AJN 1995-96. Simonetta, B. “Sulla Monetazione di Fraate IV e di Tiridates II di Parthia” in RIN 1976. -----. “Note di Numismatica Partica: La Monetazione di Tiridates (c. 30-26 a.C.)” in SNR 1987. Gonnella, R. “Ein Überprägtes Tetradrachmon des Vonones I. (8 bis 12 n.Chr.)” in SM August 1995. -----. “Eine Bisher Unbekannte Kupferdrachme von Artaban II. (10-38 n.Chr.)” in SM Mai 1993. Sellwood, D.G. “A Die-Engraver Sequence for later Parthian Drachms” in NC 1967. Simonetta, B. “Un Interessante Tesoretto di Tetradrammi di Vologeses III” in RIN 1971. Sellwood, D.G. “New Parthian Coin Types” in NC 1989. -----. “The End of the Parthian Dynasty” in NCirc June 1990. Chenevier, A. “Crépuscule de l’empire parthe – Les dernières drachmes” in Electrum 22 (2015). [Sel. 88-90] KINGS of CHARAKENE Hansman, J. “Charax and the Karkheh” in Iranica Antiqua VII (1967). Le Rider, G. “Monnaies de Characène” in Syria XXXVI (1959). [Offprint] Potts, D.T. “Arabia and the kingdom of Characene” in D.T. Potts, ed., Araby the Blest: Studies in Arabian Archaeology (Copenhagen: Carsten Niebuhr Institute Publications, 1988). Gregoratti, L. “A Parthian port on the Persian Gulf: Characene and its trade” in Anabasis 2 (2011). Coloru, O. “I Am Your Father! Dynasties and Dynastic Legitimacy on Pre-Islamic Coinage between Iran and Northwest India” in Electrum 22 (2015). Nicolet-Pierre, H. “Thionèsis, Roi de Characène (25/24-20/19 ou 19/18 av. J.-C.)” in RN 1978. Dobbins, E. “Countermarked Characene Tetradrachms of Attambelos IV” in AJN 1995-96. -----. “Two New Dates on Characene Coins” in ONS Newsletter 137 (Summer 1993). KINGS of ELYMAIS Le Rider, G. “Kamniskirès” in Le Rider, Suse, pp. 349-61. Alram, M. “15. Elymais” in Alram. Hansman, J. “Coins and Mints of Ancient Elymais” in Iran. 1990. Coloru, O. “I Am Your Father! Dynasties and Dynastic Legitimacy on Pre-Islamic Coinage between Iran and Northwest India” in Electrum 22 (2015). Le Rider, G. “Deux nouveaux tétradrachmes frappés a Suse” in RN 1978. Assar, G.R.F. “History and Coinage of Elymais During 150/149-122/121 BC” in NIB 4/2 (Autumn & Winter 2004-2005). Potts, D.T. “Five episodes in the history of Elymais, 145-124 B.C.: New data from the astronomical diaries” in Cahiers de Studia Iranica 25 (2002). Rezakhani, K. “Arsacid, Elymaean, and Persid Coinage” in D.T. Potts, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Iran (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2013). KINGS of PERSIS Wieshofer, J. “Frataraka rule in Seleucid Persis: a new appraisal” in Erskine, A., & L. Llewellyn-Jones, eds. Creating a Hellenistic World (Swansea: Classical Press of Wales, 2011). -----. “Frataraka and Seleucids” in D.T. Potts, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Iran (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2013). Callieri, P. “The Cultural Heritage of the Aristocracy of Persis During the Hellenistic Period” in Daryaee, T., A. Mousavi, and K. Rezakhani, eds. Excavating an Empire: Achaemenid Persia in Longue Durée (Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda, 2014). Müseler, W. “Die sogenannten dunklen Jahrhunderte der Persis: Ammerkungen zu einem lange vernachlässigten Thema” in JNG LV/LVI (2005/2006). Alram, M. “17. Persis” in Alram. Naster, P. “Note d’épigraphie monétaire de Perside: Fratakara, Frataraka, ou Fratadara?” in Iranica Antiqua VIII (1968). Alram, M. “Eine neue Drachme des Vahbarz (Oborzos) aus der Persis?” in LNV 3 (1987). Potts, D.T. “Foundation houses, fire altars and the frataraka: Interpreting the iconography of some post-Achaemenid Persian coins” in Iranica Antiqua 42 (2007). Tyler-Smith, S. “A Parcel of Persis Drachms, Half Drachms and Obols” in NC 164 (2004). Daryaee, T. “Ardaxšīr and the Sasanians’ Rise to Power” in Anabasis 1 (2010). Rezakhani, K. “Arsacid, Elymaean, and Persid Coinage” in D.T. Potts, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Iran (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2013). KINGS of BAKTRIA Rtveladze, E.V. “Alessandro in Battriana e Sogdiana” in Parthica 9 (2007). Jakobsson, J. “The Greeks of Afghanistan Revisited” in NK 26 (2007). Zeng, C. “Some Notable Die-links among Bactrian Gold Staters” in NC 173 (2013).
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