Sale: Triton VI, Lot: 517. Estimate $20000.  Closing Date: Monday, 13 January 2003.  Sold For $18000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PERSIS. Bagadat (Baydad). Early 2nd Century BC. AR Tetradrachm (15.62 gm). Head right, with short beard, moustache and earring, wearing satrapal cap (kyrbasia) with flaps tied up / Fire temple of Ahura-Mazda with Bagadat on left and standard to right, Aramaic legend around. Alram 515; BMC Arabia pg.196, 2. Toned EF, superb high relief portrait. Very rare. Overstruck on uncertain coin. (See color enlargement on plate 8.) ($20,000)