CNG 106, Lot: 570. Estimate $150. Sold for $320. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

INDO-PARTHIANS, Aria or Margiana. Uncertain ruler. Early-mid 1st century AD. AR Drachm (18mm, 3.73 g, 11h). Countermarked imitation of drachm of Vardanes I of Parthia. Diademed bust left; c/m: head left in incuse circle / Archer seated right on throne, holding bow; crude A below bow; Gondopharic tamgha behind throne. Senior 200.3D var. (no tamgha on rev.); Sellwood 91.14 var. (same); HGC 12 –; cf. Zeno 165411 (King B). Good VF, toned. Unknown countermarked issue with the Gondopharid tamgha on the reverse.

From the Dr. Wilfried Pieper Collection.