376, Lot: 303. Estimate $100. Sold for $95. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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KINGS of PARTHIA. Osroes I. Circa AD 108/9-127/8. Æ Chalkous (16mm, 3.57 g, 12h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Dated 439 (AD 127/8). Bust left, wearing tiara, hair in bunch behind head / Draped bust of Tyche right, holding either palm frond or caduceus; traces of ΘΛY (date) to left. Cf. Sellwood 80.23 and 80.25 (for obv. and rev.); Sunrise –; cf. Shore 625-6 (for type); cf. PDC 3712 (for obv.). VF, brown patina with traces of green. Rare.