391, Lot: 323. Estimate $500. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Phraates II. 132-127 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 16.06 g, 12h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Struck circa 129 BC. Diademed bust right within bead-and-reel border / Male deity seated left, holding Nike, who crowns him with wreath, in extended right hand, cradling cornucopia in left arm; trace of monogram to outer left, monogram in exergue. Sellwood 17.1 var. (placement of monograms). Near VF, porous, minor smoothing in obverse field.