Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 635. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Orodes II. Circa 57-38 BC. AR Tetradrachm (15.23 g, 12h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Diademed and draped bust left, wearing torque ending in sea-horse or griffin; all within pelleted border / BAΣIΛEΩΣ/BAΣIΛEΩN APΣAKO[Y]/EYEPΓETO[Y ΔIKAI]OY EΠIΦΛNOVΣ/ΦIΛEΛΛHNOΣ, 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; Shore 209 (same obv. die); PDC 39633 (same obv. die); Ars Classica XII (Petrowicz), 2399 (same rev. die). VF, graffito and light scratches on obverse, OV graffito on reverse. Overstruck on uncertain undertype.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection.