CNG 102, Lot: 698. Estimate $300. Sold for $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Vardanes I. Circa AD 38-46. BI Tetradrachm (27mm, 14.51 g, 12h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Dated Hyperberetaiou 35[3(?)] SE (September, AD 42). Diademed bust left / Vardanes seated right, receiving palm from Tyche standing left, holding cornucopia; [...]NT (year) above, [YΠE]PBEPE[TAIOY] (month) in exergue. Cf. Sellwood 64.10 (for type); cf. Sunrise 413 (same). Near EF, bright surfaces, cleaning scratches on reverse to right of king’s head, graffiti in left field of obverse.