Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 726. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $135. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Vardanes I. Circa AD 40-45. AR Tetradrachm (14.61 g, 12h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Dated Daisios SE 354 (May AD 44). Diademed bust left, wearing short beard and spiral torque; all within pelleted border / [BA(three-bar Σ)IΛEω(three-bar Σ)]/BA(three-bar Σ)IΛ[EωN] [ΛP(three-bar Σ)ΛK(quadrate O)V]/EYEPΓET(quadrate O)V] ΔIKAI(quadrate O)Y EΠIΦAN(quadrate O)Y(three-bar Σ)/[ΦI]ΛEΛΛHN[(quadrate O)(three-bar Σ)], Vardanes seated right, receiving palm from Tyche standing left; ΔNT (year) in field above, ΔAI(three-bar Σ)E(quadrate O)[V] (month) in exergue. Sellwood 64.11-19 var. (month); Shore -. VF.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection.