Sale: Triton VII, Lot: 449. Estimate $150.  Closing Date: Monday, 12 January 2004.  Sold For $150. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Orodes II. 58/7 - 38 BC. AR Drachm (3.82 gm). Kangavar mint. Diademed bust left; neck torque ends in two pellets / BACILEWC BACILEWN A-RCAK[OU EU]ERGETOU [DI]KAIOU EPIFANOUC FILELLHNOC (in crude form), Arsakes I seated right on throne, holding bow; K below bow. Sellwood 45.21 var. (single pellet on torque); Shore 230 var. (same); BMC Parthia pg. 75, 51 var. (Orodes I; same); MACW -. Toned, good VF, area of horn silver on reverse. Unpublished variety. ($150)

Ex Schweizerischer Bankverein 33 (20-22 September 1993), lot 411.

The standardization of the legend for the drachms and tetradrachms in their standard formats gradually results in each die being copied from the one before, thus causing blundering of the legend. This blundering becomes progressively worse until the Greek legends become almost unintelligible.