Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 673. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Phraates IV. Circa 38-2 BC. AR Tetradrachm (11.83 g, 12h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Dated Holöos SE 275 (July 37 BC). Diademed and draped bust left, wart on forehead, wearing short beard and torque ending in sea-horse or griffin; 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; ЄO(three-bar Σ) (year) below throne, (quadrate O)ΛΩ (month) in exergue. Callataÿ, Tetradrachmes, pl. XIX, 2; Sellwood 50.3; Shore -; PDC 18518 (this coin). Good VF, lightly toned, areas of slight roughness on obverse.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection.