448, Lot: 254. Estimate $100. Sold for $110. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Vardanes I. Circa AD 38-46. BI Tetradrachm (26mm, 13.79 g, 12h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Dated 355 SE (AD 43/4). Diademed bust left / Vardanes seated right, receiving palm from Tyche standing left, holding cornucopia; ENT (year) above. Sellwood 64.20-7; cf. Sunrise 413 (for type); cf. Shore 351 (same). Lightly toned, graffiti on obverse. Near VF.

Ex Wayne Philips 35 (circa 1998), lot 542.