Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 672. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $140. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Phraates IV. Circa 38-2 BC. AR Tetradrachm (14.59 g, 12h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Dated Audynaios SE 287 (December 26 BC). Diademed and draped bust left, wart on forehead, wearing pointed beard and torque with no end visible; all within pelleted border / BΛ(three-bar Σ)IΛE(Ω with central pellet)[(three-bar Σ)]/BΛ(three-bar Σ)ΛE(Ω with central pellet)N ΛP(three-bar Σ)AK(quadrate O)Y/EYEPΓETOY/ΔIKAI(quadrate O)Y EΠIΦΛNOV(three-bar Σ)/ΦIΛEΛΛHN(quadrate O)(three-bar Σ), Phraates seated right on throne, Tyche standing left before him, presenting diadem and holding cornucopia; [A]VΔN (month) Z [Π(three-bar Σ)] (year) in exergue. Cf. Callataÿ, Tetradrachmes, pl. XIX, 2; Sellwood 50.2; Shore -; PDC 39677 (this coin). VF, toned, traces of graffiti on obverse.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection. Ex Dr. Robert Gonnella Collection (Peus 388, 1 November 2006), lot 495.