Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 778. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $170. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Vologases III. Circa AD 105-147. AR Tetradrachm (13.67 g, 12h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Dated SE 433 (AD 121/2). Diademed bust left, wearing slight beard, earring, and tiara decorated with “hooks”; Γ to right; all within pelleted border / BA(three-bar Σ)IΛEω(three-bar Σ)/BA(three-bar Σ)IΛEωN AP[(three-bar Σ)AK(quadrate O)Y]/(quadrate O)ΛAΓA[(three-bar Σ)(quadrate O)Y] [ΔI]KA[I(quadrate O)Y] EΠIΦAN[(quadrate O)Y(three-bar Σ)]/[ΦI]ΛEΛΛ[HN(quadrate O)(three-bar Σ)], Vologases seated right on throne, Tyche standing left before him, presenting diadem; ΓΛY (date) above. Sellwood 79.4; cf. Shore 406. VF.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection.