Seleucid, Parthian, and Sasanian coins 

Caption

Import restricted since 1990, section III.B.3 of 2008 designated list.

Size: Diameter: 2.85 cm

Date: Hellenistic-Seleucid (331-138 BC), Parthian (138 BC-AD 224), Sasanian (AD 224-636)

Coin types and materials for coins minted or circulated in Iraq during the Seleucid, Parthian, and Sasanian periods include gold staters and dinars, bronze or silver drachms, tetradrachms, and hemidrachms, and smaller bronze and lead coins. These coins usually have male and female busts (of kings and queens) on the front. Seated archers, seated gods such as Zeus, winged Victory, and other Greco-Roman mythological subjects, are usually on the reverse of the Seleucid and Parthian coins, which are inscribed in Greek or Parthian.