Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 779. Estimate $250.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $190. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Vologases III. Circa AD 105-147. AR Tetradrachm (13.71 g, 1h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Dated Apellaios SE 451 (AD 139/40). Diademed bust left, wearing slight 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)IΛE[ωN] [AP(three-bar Σ)]AK(quadrate O)[Y]/(quadrate O)ΛAΓA(three-bar Σ)(quadrate O)[Y] ΔIKAI(quadrate O)Y EΠIΦAN(quadrate O)Y(three-bar Σ)/[ΦIΛ]EΛΛHN[(quadrate O)(three-bar Σ)], Vologases seated right on throne, Tyche standing left before him, presenting diadem; ANV (date) above, [A]ΠEΛAI(quadrate O)[V] (month) in exergue. Sellwood 79.31; Shore -. Near EF, light scratch on obverse. Well centered.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection.