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Mint: Ecbatana
Region: Persis(Province / Vassal State)
Date: ca. 51 CE
Metal/Denomination: AR, Drachm
Weight/Diameter/Die-Axis: 3.51 g / 20 mm / 1 h
Obverse: Beaded; Vonones II, beared, helmeted bust facing with short beard wearing diadem with…

Mint: Ecbatana
Region: Persis(Province / Vassal State)
Date: 49–50 CE
Metal/Denomination: AR, Drachm
Weight/Diameter/Die-Axis: 3.67 g / 20 mm / 12 h
Obverse: Beaded; Meherdates' (Usurper) beaded, helmeted bust with short beard wearing diadem…

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There are many similar contents in Hou Hanshu and Shiji or Hanshu, but after Zhang Qian went to Western regions, as many people were able to go out of China on private or official business, the records of relations with western regions became more…

According to the Shiji, emperor Wu used to seek the method of eternal life at the end of East-China, so he order his own priests to look for the god’s trace but was not successful. It is said that someone incidentally saw the goddess, Queen Mother of…

The Hou Hanshu records the history of the Eastern Han Dynasty. It was written by Fan Ye in the first half of the fifth century CE (398-445). The book is divided into ten chronicles, eighty biographies, and eight histories, recording the history…

The Han Dynasty sent Zhang Qian and others as envoys to the West because they wanted to solve the border problem with the Xiongnu. This is also considered by many scholars to be the main reason for Zhang Qian to go out into the Western Regions.

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