Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 735. Estimate $150.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $140. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Gotarzes II. Circa AD 40-51. AR Tetradrachm (14.22 g, 12h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Dated Panemos SE 360 (June AD 50). Diademed bust left, wearing long beard and spiral torque; all within pelleted border / [BA(three-bar Σ)IΛE[ω(three-bar Σ)/B]A(three-bar Σ)IΛE[ωN AP(three-bar Σ)A[K(quadrate O)Y]/EVEPΓE[T(quadrate O)Y] ΔIKAI(quadrate O)V EΠIΦAN(quadrate O)[Y(three-bar Σ)]/[ΦIΛEΛΛ]HN[(quadrate O)(three-bar Σ)], Gotarzes seated right, receiving diadem from Tyche standing left; ΞT (year) in field above, ΠAIIII(quadrate O)[V] (month) in exergue. Sellwood 65.21; Shore 361. VF.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection.