Tetradrachm (Coin) Portraying Bust of King Volagases IV
192-193
- Medium
- Silver
- Classification
- Coin
- Dimensions
- Diam.: 2.5 cm (1 in.)
- Culture
- Iran
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium
- Credit line
- Gift of William F. Dunham
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
The front (obverse) of this coin portrays King Volagases IV, his forehead bound in a type of headband called a fillet. Above this, his hair is depicted as rows of dots. On the back (reverse) the goddess Tyche presents a wreath to the king, who is seated on a high backed throne
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
