Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 734. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Gotarzes II. Circa AD 40-51. AR Tetradrachm (14.44 g, 12h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Dated SE 358 (AD 47/8). Diademed bust left, wearing long beard and spiral torque; all within pelleted border / [B]A(three-bar Σ)IΛE[ω(three-bar Σ)]/BA(three-bar Σ)IΛEωN AP(three-bar Σ)A[K(quadrate O)Y]/EYEPΓET[(quadrate O)Y] ΔIKAI(quadrate O)Y EΠIΦAN[(quadrate O)Y(three-bar Σ)]/[ΦIΛ]EΛΛH[N(quadrate O)(three-bar Σ)], Gotarzes seated right, receiving diadem from Tyche standing left; HNT (year) in field above, month off flan. Cf. Sellwood 65.8-17; cf. Shore 360. Good VF.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection.