395, Lot: 232. Estimate $100. Sold for $190. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Vardanes I. Circa AD 38-46. BI Tetradrachm (28mm, 14.03 g, 12h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Dated 336 SE (AD 53/4). Diademed bust left / Vardanes seated right, receiving palm from Tyche standing left, holding cornucopia; year above; [month in exergue]. Cf. Sellwood 69 (for type; year unlisted); Sunrise –; Shore –; cf. PDC 5854 = CNG E-4, lot 59563 (for type); cf. Peus 374, lot 169 (same); Peus 372, lot 681. VF, toned. Very rare date.