400, Lot: 479. Estimate $100. Sold for $60. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Vologases V. Circa AD 191-207/8. BI Tetradrachm (23mm, 13.76 g, 12h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Dated 505 SE (AD 193/4). Diademed bust left, wearing long beard and with hair in bunches above head and over ear / Vologases seated left, receiving wreath from Tyche standing right; year above, month off flan. Cf. Sellwood 87.10-11; Sunrise 457; Shore 442. VF, toned, some porosity. Struck on a compact flan.

From the collection of a Texas Wine Doctor.