CNG 93, Lot: 652. Estimate $2000. Sold for $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Mithradates I. 164-132 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 15.09 g, 1h). 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, minor porosity, light scrape in field on reverse.