Parthian Royal Titles on the Coins

Parthian era is an important part of the history of Iran and the world, and one of the most accessible resources to identify and study different political, social and artistic aspects of this time is to study the coins of that era. Inscriptions and the names listed on Parthian coins, often written in Greek, had a variety of purposes, including the political, familial, ethnical and religious aspects. The reason for such a use can be found from the nature of coins because they were an efficient tool for sending the Parthian kings message to different communities under their influence. In the second half of the Parthian era, some titles were gradually appeared on coins in Parthian language and in the last decades, the Greek titles lost their advertising use and remained as an element of little importance and illegible in many cases, on the coins of this era. This research using library resources alongside of museum reviews, and analyze of the obtained data, studies the process of forming, quiddity and the reasons of the decline of the inscriptions in Parthian coins.