Triton XVI, Lot: 630. Estimate $3000. Sold for $2800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Mithradates II. 121-91 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 15.98 g, 12h). Seleukia on the Tigris mint. Struck circa 119-109 BC. Diademed and draped bust left, wearing long beard, earring, and torque ending in combination of two pellets and lanceate design; all within pelleted border / BAΣIΛEΩΣ [M]EΓΛΛOY AP ΣAKOY, [E]ΠIΦANOVΣ in exergue, archer (Arsakes I) seated right on omphalos, holding bow in outstretched right hand; palm to outer right; TV in exergue. Sellwood 24.4; Shore 67; Sunrise 284. Near EF, attractive old cabinet tone. Good metal. Traces of uncertain undertype on reverse.