Sale: Triton VII, Lot: 540. Estimate $2000. Closing Date: Monday, 12 January 2004. Sold For $6500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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KINGS of PERSIS. Oborzos (Vabharz). Early-mid 3rd century BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.88 gm). Head right, with moustache, wearing diadem and satrapal cap (kyrbasia) / Fire temple of Ahura-Mazda, on left, Artaxerses standing right, to right, standard, Aramaic legend to left, flanking temple, and in exergue. Alram 526 var. (legends); cf. BMC Arabia pg. 197, 2 (drachm); De Morgan pg. 399, 5a. EF, overstruck on uncertain type. Very rare. ($2000)