425, Lot: 260. Estimate $100. Sold for $525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

INDO-PARTHIANS, Gondopharid Dynasty. Aspabharata. Circa 1st century AD. AR Drachm (16.5mm, 2.02 g, 2h). Gondophares-Sasestype. Uncertain Sind(?) mint. [...]ACΠAΦ[...], diademed bust left; trace of Gondopharid tamgha to left / (beginning at 10:30 o’clock) maharajasa tratarasa(?) [a]spabhratarasa sa(?)[sasa}, Nike advancing right, holding palm frond and filleted wreath. Cf. Senior 245 (for general type, but with Nike left); otherwise unpublished in the standard references. Good VF, traces of find patina, cleaning marks, crystallized with some loss of metal.

CNG wishes to acknowledge the assistance of R.C. Senior in the reading of this new ruler.