Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 793. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $120. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Vologases IV. Circa AD 147-191. BI Tetradrachm (13.23 g, 12h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Dated Dios SE 495 (AD 184). Diademed bust left, wearing long beard, earring, and tiara decorated with “hooks”; B to right; all within pelleted border / [BA(three-bar Σ)IΛEω(three-bar Σ)]/BA(three-bar Σ)I[ΛEωN] [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)]/ΦIΛEΛΛ[HN(quadrate O)(three-bar Σ)], Vologases seated right on throne, Tyche standing left before him, presenting diadem; E(qoppa)V (date) above, [Δ]AI(three-bar Σ)[I] (month) in exergue. Sellwood 84.100; cf. Shore 427-432. VF, toned.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection.