Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 674. 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 (15.36 g, 12h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Dated Gorpiaios SE 286 (August 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 palm and holding cornucopia; CΠ[(three-bar Σ)] (year) above Tyche, [Γ(quadrate O)]PΠIAI (month) in exergue. Callataÿ, Tetradrachmes, pp. 73-74 (dies not illustrated); Sellwood 51.21 var. (Γ[quadrate O]P only); Shore -. VF, toned, traces of graffiti on obverse.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection. Ex Gorny & Mosch 134 (11 October 2004), lot 1615.