Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 751. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Vologases II. Circa AD 77-80. AR Tetradrachm (12.75 g, 12h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Dated 389 SE (AD 77/8). Diademed bust left, wearing short beard, earring, and tiara decorated with "hooks"; A to right; all within pelleted border / [BA(three-bar Σ)IΛE[ω(three-bar Σ)]/BA(three-bar Σ)IΛEω[N] [A]P(three-bar Σ)A[K(quadrate O)Y]/EYEPΓET(quadrate O)[Y Δ]IKAI(quadrate O)Y EΠIΦAN[(quadrate O)[Y(three-bar Σ)/ΦIΛEΛΛH[N(quadrate O)(three-bar Σ)], Vologases enthroned left, being presented diadem by Tyche standing right and holding sceptre; ΘΠT (year) above, month off flan. Cf. Sellwood 72.1-2; Shore -. VF.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection.

After the fall of Vologases I, the kingdom was split between two rivals, with Vologases II ruling Mesopotamia, and Pakoros II in Iran. Based on the style of his tiara, last seen on coins of Vonones II, it is possible that the two were related. Almost nothing else is known of this king’s reign.