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Sale: Triton VII, Lot: 491. Estimate $300. 
Closing Date: Monday, 12 January 2004. 
Sold For $450. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Pakoros II. 78-105 AD. Billon Tetradrachm (9.23 gm). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Dated (erroneously) Seleukid era 384 (probably should be 394=82/3 AD). Diademed bust left, slight beard, no ear or earring visible; D behind / [BACILEWC B]ACILE[WN] AP[CAKOY] P[AKOROU DI]KAIOU EPIFA[NOVC FILELLHNOC], Pakoros on horseback left, receiving diadem from Tyche, standing right before him, holding staff, to left, a man stands right, holding an untied diadem; DPT (year; (sic), should probably be DFT) above, [month in exergue]. Sellwood 75.5; Shore -; cf. BMC Parthia pg. 198, 35; MACW -. Toned VF, a few spots of hard encrustation. ($300)

Ex Numismatica Ars Classica D (2-3 March 1994), lot 1592.