397, Lot: 244. Estimate $300. Sold for $450. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Artabanos III. 126-122 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 15.52 g, 12h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Dated SE 188 (125 BC). Diademed bust right / Demeter seated left, holding cornucopia and Nike, who crowns her with wreath; winged tritoness supporting throne; to outer left, ΘΕ above monogram; date in exergue. Sellwood 21.3 var. (ΘE to inner left); Sunrise 277 var. (same); Shore –; PDC –. VF, toned, hair and beard tooled.

From the Nisa Collection.