372, Lot: 198. Estimate $200. Sold for $500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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KINGS of PARTHIA. Vonones I. Circa AD 8-12. BI Tetradrachm (27mm, 12.02 g, 12h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Dated Diou 323 SE (October AD 11). Diademed bust left / Nike advancing left, holding diadem and palm frond; date to left of diadem ties; month in exergue. Sellwood 60.3-4 var. (months); Sunrise 406 var. (same); cf. Shore 328 (for type). VF, toned, uncertain graffiti in left field of obverse, minor porosity. Overstruck on a tetradrachm of Phraatakes and Musa.