382, Lot: 185. Estimate $100. Sold for $145. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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KINGS of PARTHIA. Mithradates II. 121-91 BC. AR Drachm (19mm, 2.83 g, 12h). Contemporary imitation. Uncertain mint, probably in the east. Diademed and draped bust left / Archer (Arsakes I) seated right on omphalos, holding bow. Cf. Sellwood Type 26–27 (for prototype); cf. Nikitin,
Parthian, pl. I, 4; cf. Zeno 84924. VF, deposits, light roughness. Rare and interesting.