CNG 96, Lot: 613. Estimate $1500. Sold for $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Mithradates II. 121-91 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 16.02 g, 12h). Seleukia on the Tigris mint. Struck circa 119-109 BC. Diademed and draped bust left / Archer (Arsakes I) seated right on omphalos, holding bow; palm to outer right; TV in exergue. Sellwood 24.4; Shore 67; Sunrise 284. Near EF, minor roughness.

From the Ronald J. Hansen Collection. Ex Noble 69 (20 March 2002), lot 1827.