Triton XX, Lot: 418. Estimate $1000. Sold for $2250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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KINGS of PARTHIA. Artabanos III. 126-122 BC. AR Tetradrachm (31mm, 16.26 g, 12h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Dated SE 188 (125 BC). Diademed bust right within bead-and-reel border / 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; monogram to outer left; HΠP (date) in exergue. Sellwood 21.1; Sunrise 277 var. (ΘE to inner left); Shore –; PDC 12358. Good VF, hint of porosity.