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386, Lot: 395. Estimate $150.
Sold for $525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Uncertain Usurper (Tiridates?). April/May-October/December 27 BC. BI Tetradrachm (28mm, 13.04 g, 1h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Dated Pdaisios 285 SE (May, 27 BC). Diademed bust left / Phraates seated right, receiving wreath from Tyche standing left, holding cornucopia; year below throne; ΠΔΑΙΣΙ[...] (month) in exergue. Sellwood 55.5 var. (ΔΑΙΣΙ); Sunrise 398 var. (same); Shore –; Callataÿ 126. Good VF, light porosity, hint of copper deposit on reverse. Overstruck on uncertain undertype.