CNG 106, Lot: 531. Estimate $300. Sold for $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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KINGS of PARTHIA. Arsakes II. 211-185 BC. Æ Dichalkous (17mm, 3.58 g, 11h). Rhagai-Arsakeia(?) mint. Struck circa 211-209 BC. Head left, wearing bashlyk / Eagle with open wings standing right on bucranium; to right, head of horse right. Sellwood –; B. Simonetta, “Brevi note di numismatica Partica: Chalkoi di Arsaces II,”
SM 144 (November 1986), p. 88; Sunrise –; Shore –; PDC 10404 (same obv. die); Triton IX, lot 1088. Good VF, earthen red-brown and green patina. Very rare.
From the Nisa Collection.