452, Lot: 514. Estimate $2000. Sold for $2750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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KINGS of PARTHIA. Mithradates I. 165-132 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 15.34 g, 12h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Struck circa 141 BC. Diademed bust right within bead-and-reel border / Young Herakles standing left, holding skyphos and club; monogram in exergue. Sellwood 13.2; Sunrise 260; Shore 35. Toned, some surface granularity on obverse, light porosity and off center strike on reverse. Good VF.