CNG 93, Lot: 668. Estimate $300. Sold for $200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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KINGS of PARTHIA. Meherdates. Usurper, AD 49-50. AR Drachm (22mm, 3.76 g, 12h). Ekbatana mint. Diademed facing bust; stars flanking / Archer (Arsakes I) seated right on throne, holding bow; monogram below bow. Sellwood 67.1 (Vonones II); Shore 368 (Vonones II); Sunrise 417-8. Near EF, toned.
Ex Malter XLIV (29 May 1990), lot 209.
For the reattribution of the Sellwood Type 67 coinage to Meherdates, see Sunrise pp. 140–1.