Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 636. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Orodes II. Circa 57-38 BC. AR Tetradrachm (14.83 g, 12h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Diademed and draped bust left, wearing torque ending in sea-horse or griffin; all within pelleted border / BAΣIΛEΩ[Σ]/BAΣIΛEΩN APΣAK[OY]/EYEPΓETO[Y] ΔIKAI]OY EΠIΦΛNOVΣ/[Φ]IΛEΛΛHNO[Σ], Orodes enthroned right, raising up kneeling Tyche, who raises right hand and cradles scepter in left arm; ΠO monogram above; [ΞA in exergue]. Callataÿ, Tetradrachmes -; Sellwood 45.3-8; cf. Shore 209. VF, light graffiti in obverse field.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection.