[For ann excellent recent article by an Oxford fellow on Armenia as represented on Roman coins, including the Armenia defeated under Lucius Verus (and Statius Priscus), see
Here is one site only with a catalog of coins showing the Roman emperors Marcus Aurelius and/or Lucius Verus as conquerors of Armenia. I have posted a couple below that display Armenia as a defeated figure. The one actually labelled ARMEN is found on quite a few other coins of this type.
Had the Romans intended for these coins to commemorate the defeat and conquest of Parthia, they would have had that written under the defeated figure. Instead, this is clearly denoted as a personification of a subjugated Armenia. And that is because this first phase of the eastern war was thought of as being ADVERSUS ARMENIOS, i.e "against Armenia."
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