Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 675. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $280. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Phraates IV. Circa 38-2 BC. BI Tetradrachm (14.26 g, 12h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Dated Holöos SE 280 (July 32 BC). Diademed and draped bust left, wart on forehead, wearing pointed beard and torque with no end visible; all within pelleted border / BΛΣIΛEΩ[Σ]/BΛΣΛEΩN ΛPΣAKOY/EYEΓΓET[OY] ΔIKAIOV [E]ΠIΦΛNOVΣ/[ΦIΛ]EΛΛHN[OΣ] (sic), Phraates seated right on throne, Athena standing left before him, presenting diadem and holding spear; [...](three-bar Σ) (year) OΛΩI (month) in exergue. Cf. Sellwood 52.5; cf. Shore 274; PDC 15136 (this coin). Good VF, typical porosity for issue.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection. Ex Peus 372 (30 October 2002), lot 650.