Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 712. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Artabanos III. Circa AD 10-38. AR Tetradrachm (13.61 g, 12h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Dated Daisios SE 334 (May AD 23). Diademed bust left, wearing slight beard, earring, and spiral torque; all within pelleted border; ΔΛT (year) to left / [B]Λ(three-bar Σ)IΛ(three-bar Σ)[Λ(three-bar Σ) B]Λ(three-bar Σ)IΛ(three-bar Σ)Λ[N] (three-bar Σ)V(three-bar Σ)IΓ(three-bar Σ)T[(quadrate O)V] ΛP(three-bar Σ)ΛK(quadrate O)[V] (sic), Artabanos enthroned left, receiving palm from Tyche standing right and diadem from man between them who kneels right; ΔΛT (year) across upper field; [Δ]Λ(three-bar Σ)IOY (sic) (month) in exergue. Sellwood 62.3 (Artabanos II); Shore 331; PDC 20895 and 39725 (this coin). VF, toned, light graffiti on obverse. Overstruck on an uncertain (Vonones I?) undertype.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection. Ex Dr. Robert Gonnella Collection (Peus 388, 1 November 2006), lot 557; Peus 376 (29 October 2003), lot 714.