Triton XVI, Lot: 628. Estimate $5000. Sold for $4250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Mithradates I. 165-132 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 15.65 g, 1h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Struck circa 141/0 BC. Diademed and draped bust right, within bead-and-reel border / BAΣIΛEΩΣ MEΓ-AΛO-Y APΣA-KOY ΦIΛEΛΛH-NOΣ, diademed and beardless young Herakles standing left, holding skyphos in extended right hand and cradling club in lion skin-draped left arm; monogram in exergue. Sellwood 13.2; Shore 35; Sunrise 260. EF, a hint of toning around the devices, a few tiny metal flaws.