Triton XX, Lot: 417. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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KINGS of PARTHIA. Artabanos II. 127-126 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29mm, 16.03 g, 1h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Diademed head right within bead-and-reel borde / BAΣIΛEΩΣ to right, APΣAKOY to left, Demeter seated left, holding Nike, who crowns her with wreath, in extended right hand, cradling cornucopia in left arm; winged tritoness supporting throne. Sellwood 18.1 (Inter-regnal Issue); Sunrise 273; Shore –. Good VF, hint of porosity, small pit in crown of head.