Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 727. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $120. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Vardanes I. Circa AD 40-45. AR Tetradrachm (14.42 g, 12h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Dated Xandikos SE 354 (August AD 44). Diademed bust left, wearing short beard and spiral torque; all within pelleted border / [BA(three-bar Σ)IΛ[Eω(three-bar Σ)]/BA(three-bar Σ)IΛEω[N] ΛP(three-bar Σ)Λ[K(quadrate O)V]/EYEPΓET(quadrate O)[V] ΔIKΛI(quadrate O)V EΠIΦAN(quadrate O)V(three-bar Σ)/[Φ]IΛEΛΛHN(quadrate O)[(three-bar Σ), Vardanes seated right, receiving palm from Tyche standing left; ΔNT (year) in field above, ΞANΔIK[(quadrate O)[V] (month) in exergue. Sellwood 64.11-19 var. (month); Shore -. VF, light graffito on obverse.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection.