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Research Coins: Feature Auction

 
Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 762. Estimate $200. 
Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010. 
Sold For $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Pakoros II. Circa AD 78-105. AR Tetradrachm (9.44 g, 12h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Dated Dystros(?) 407 SE (February AD 96). Diademed bust left, wearing short beard, earring, and tiara decorated with "hooks"; Δ to right; all within pelleted border / [BA(three-bar Σ)IΛEω(three-bar Σ)]/BA(three-bar Σ)IΛEωN AP(three-bar Σ)A[K(quadrate O)Y/Π]AK(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; (Z retrograde)Y (year) above, ΔV(three-bar Σ)[TP(quadrate O)Y] (month) in exergue. Sellwood 77.7; Shore -. VF.


From the Todd A. Ballen Collection.