A HOARD OF PARTHIAN COINS IN AFYON MUSEUM (CH 9. 585) R.HJ. ASHTON, D.G. SELLWOOD AND M. UYUMEZ PLATE 52 The following ten coins were acquired by Afyon Museum on the same day in 197 from the same vendor.’ Their patina and the traces of corrosion found on them were similar, and it seems likely that they constituted the whole, or part, of a single hoard. The vendor came from Tokat in north-central Turkey. Gotarzes 1, Eebatana, c, 90 BC 1. 364 xii $7331 Afyon inv. no. 4202 Phrates III, Krugavar, ¢. 60 BC 2. 365 xii S.39.8 lyon inv. no. 4198. Orodes Il, Ecbatana, ¢. 50 BC 3. 342 xii S.46.8 —Afyon inv. no. 4195, 4. 3.70 xii $.46.8 —Afyon inv. no. 4200 S. 352 xii $46.8 — Afyon inv. no. 4197 Orodes II, Rhagae, c. 45 BC 6. 3.23 xii $.47.8 —Afyon inv. no. 4201 7. 3.64 xii S478 —Afyon inv. no. 4199 Orodes Il, Mithradatkart, e. 45 BC 8. 359 xii S479 Afyon inv. no. 4196 9. 3.64 xii $47.29 Afyon inv. no. 4194 10.382 xii $.47.32Afyon inv. no. 4193 ' These coins were recorded during the expeditions made by R, Ashton and J. Casey to Afyon Museum in 1994 and 1995. Thanks are due to the then Director of the Museum, Ahmet Topbas and to Acting Director Ahmet llash, * DG. Sellwood, The Coinage of Parthia (2% ed., London, 1980). 291‘THE AKURA HOARD OF PARTHIAN COINS, 1994 (CH 9. 591) Z. SAWAYA During 1994 a hoard of Parthian tetradrachms was discovered by treasure-hunters among ruins at Akura, fifty kilometres east of Byblos in Lebanon. I was able briefly to record the details of the following twenty-nine coins from the find which appeared on the market in Beirut. No container was reported as having been found with the coins, but the appearance of cracks apparently caused by frost on most of them leaves little doubt that the coins form a group. ‘Artabanos II (AD 10/11 ~ ¢. 38)! bv. Bust of king 1. Rev. King seated r 1 Gorpiai, year 323 (= AD 10/11). Cf. BMC Artabanus 11 24 Date off flan and month illegible (Oby, Bust of king |. Rev. King seated | 3 Gorpiaios, yr, 334 (= AD 22/3). Cf. BMC Artabanus 112 ‘Obv. Bust of king facing. Rev. King on horseback I. 6 Yr.338 (= AD 26/7). Cf. BMC Artabanus 120 ‘Vardanes I (c. AD 39 ~. 45) ‘Obv. Bust of king |. Rev. King seated r 7 Gorpiaios, yr. 353 (= AD 41/2) 8 Apellaios, yr. 355 (= AD 43/4) 9 Month off flan, ye. 355 (= AD 43/4) 10-14 Month off flan, yr. 356 (= AD 44/5) Gotarzes II (AD 43/4 ~ 50/1) by. Bust of king |. Rev. King seated r. 15-16 Year 357 17 Year 3621 18-20 Date illegible Volagases I (AD 50/1 - 76/7) (Oby. Bust of king facing, looking I. Rev. King seated | 21 Month off flan, year 363 (= AD 51/2) by. Bust of king l. Rev. King seated |, 22 Month off flan, year 367 (= AD 55/6) 23-5 Month off flan, year 368 (= AD 56/7) 26 Month off flan, year 374 (= AD 62/3) 27 Gorpiaios, year 377 (= AD 56/6) 28 Xandikos, yr. illegible 29 Date illegible " The chronology and identification of the Parthian kings adopted here follows that of G. Le Rider, Suse sous les séleucides et les parthes (Paris, 1966), pp. 61 and 419 0.3 292