Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 756. Estimate $250.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Pakoros II. Circa AD 78-105. AR Tetradrachm (12.97 g, 12h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Dated Dystros 389 SE (February AD 78). Diademed bust left, wearing short beard and spiral torque; A to right; all within pelleted border / [BA(three-bar Σ)IΛEω(three-bar Σ)]/BA(three-bar Σ)IΛEω[N] [AP](three-bar Σ)A[K(quadrate O)Y]/ΠAK(quadrate O)P(quadrate O)[Y] ΔIKAI(quadrate O)Y EΠIΦAN(quadrate O)[Y(three-bar Σ)/ΦIΛ]EΛΛHN[(quadrate O)(three-bar Σ)], Pakoros enthroned left, being presented diadem by Tyche standing right and holding sceptre; ΘΠT (year) above, [ΔY(three-bar Σ)T]P(quadrate O)[Y] (month) in exergue. Sellwood 73.1; cf. Shore 394; PDC 39781 (this coin). VF, porous.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection. Ex Dr. Robert Gonnella Collection (Peus 388, 1 November 2006), lot 628; G. Hirsch 226 (13 February 2003), lot 1650.