Sale: Triton VI, Lot: 502. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 13 January 2003.  Sold For $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Bagasis. Circa 127-126 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.08 gm). Seleukeia mint. Diademed bust right / BASILEWS ARSAKOU, Demeter enthroned left, holding Nike and cornucopiae, nereid supporting throne. Shore -; Sellwood 18.1; Le Rider, Suse pl. 71, 1. Toned, good VF, scattered porosity, sharp portrait. ($1000) 

Dr. Assar has convincingly argued -- based on literary evidence, a number of references on cuneiform tablets, and the hitherto unknown dated type of this series (see Triton V, lot 1575) ­ that this coinage is not an interregnal issue but rather the brief coinage of the elderly King Bagasis, who apparently ruled for only a few months before being succeeded by his younger brother, Artabanos I.