Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 728. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Vardanes I. Circa AD 40-45. AR Tetradrachm (13.87 g, 12h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Dated Panemos SE 354 (June 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)IΛEω[N] AP(three-bar Σ)AK(quadrate O)[Y]/EVEPΓET(quadrate O)[Y] ΔIKAI(quadrate O)(Y) EΠIΦAN(quadrate O)Y(three-bar Σ)/[ΦIΛ]EΛΛHN[(quadrate O)(three-bar Σ)], Vardanes seated right, receiving palm from Tyche standing left; ГNT (year) in field above, ΠANHΠ(quadrate O)[V] (month) in exergue. Sellwood 64.16; Shore -. Near EF, light double striking on reverse. Struck on broad flan.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection.