Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 765. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009.  Sold For $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Mithradates II. 121-91 BC. AR Tetradrachm (15.89 g, 12h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Struck circa 119-109 BC. Diademed and draped bust left / Archer (Arsakes I) seated right on omphalos, holding bow; palm to right, TV in exergue. Sellwood 24.4; Shore 67. EF, light scratches in left field of reverse, reverse slightly double struck.