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Research Coins: Feature Auction

 
Sale: Triton VI, Lot: 509. Estimate $3000. 
Closing Date: Monday, 13 January 2003. 
Sold For $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Orodes I. 90-77 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.11 gm). Diademed bust left with short beard / BASILEWS MEGA-LOU ARS-AKOU QEOPATOROS EUERGETOU EPIFANOUS FILELLHNOS, archer seated right on throne, holding bow, monogram above bow. Shore 130 (this coin); cf. Sellwood 30.7 (Unknown King). Toned EF, few old scrapes on obverse, well centered. (See color enlargement on plate 8.) ($3000)

Ex Fred Shore Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 36, 5-6 December 1995), lot 130.