397, Lot: 261. Estimate $200. Sold for $525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Uncertain Usurper (Tiridates?). April/May-October/December 27 BC. BI Tetradrachm (29mm, 14.74 g, 12h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Dated Holöios(?) (July). Diademed bust left / Royal figure seated right, receiving palm frond from Tyche standing left, holding cornucopia; year below throne; [month in exergue]. Callataÿ –; cf. Sellwood 55.1-2 (for type); Sunrise –; cf. Shore 306 (same); David Sellwood Collection (Baldwin’s 96), lot 3119.2 (Tiridates; same obv. die). VF, some roughness in field, minor scratches. Very rare.

From the Nisa Collection.