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CNG 93, Lot: 651. Estimate $3000.
Sold for $2400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Mithradates I. 164-132 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 15.28 g, 12h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Struck circa 141 BC. Diademed bust right, within bead-and-reel border / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ME ΓAΛO Y APΣA KOY ΦIΛEΛΛHNOΣ, diademed and beardless young Herakles standing left, holding skyphos in extended right hand and cradling club in lion skin-draped left arm; monogram in exergue. Sellwood 13.2; Shore 35; Sunrise 260. Good VF, lightly toned, some minor porosity, die shift on reverse.