Career
Foreign Parthian Kings and other people of this name, see Artabanus. From surviving coins that he issued from his reign have some resemblance of the issued coins from the reign of Artabanus III. From this, Artabanus IV can be seen as a possible son of Artabanus III. His own reign as King extended from about 80 to 90. On coinage, he is known as Arsaces Artabanus.
Artabanus IV was strong enough at one point to support the Roman Terentius Maximus, a pretender to the Roman Empire who rose in Anatolia under the name of the Roman emperor, Nero.
However Artabanus IV couldn’t maintain himself against Pacorus World War II
