Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 796. Estimate $150. Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010. Sold For $160. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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KINGS of PARTHIA. Vologases IV. Circa AD 147-191. AR Drachm (3.79 g, 12h). Ekbatana mint. Diademed bust left, wearing long beard, earring, and tiara with ear flap and spiral torque, and decorated with “hooks”; all within pelleted border / [“wlg]cy mlk” in Parthian]/IΛIIΛN I –V(quadrate O)[V]/IVIΓIT(quadrate O)[V] XVΛИV ΛXΛIΛV(quadrate O)/TXΛIΛ(quadrate O) (
sic), archer (Arsakes I) seated right on throne, holding bow; monogram below bow, Λ below throne. Sellwood 84.131; cf. Shore 427-432. EF.
From the Todd A. Ballen Collection.