400, Lot: 459. Estimate $100. Sold for $85. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Vardanes I. Circa AD 38-46. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 14.25 g, 12h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Dated 355 SE (AD 43/4). Diademed bust left / Vardanes seated right, receiving palm frond from Tyche standing left, holding cornucopia; year above. Cf. Sellwood 64.20-7; Sunrise 413; cf. Shore 350-1. VF, find patina, graffiti under patina on obverse.

From the collection of a Texas Wine Doctor.