Sale: CNG 66, Lot: 765. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 19 May 2004.  Sold For $2000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Mithradates I. Circa 171-132 BC. AR Drachm (3.72 gm). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Dated Seleukid Era 174 (139/8 BC). Bearded bust right wearing diadem, reel and pellet border / Zeus enthroned left, holding eagle and sceptre; date in exergue. Sellwood 13.10; Shore 39; BMC Parthia pg. 15, 61; MACW -. Good VF, light obverse scrape. Excellent metal for issue. Rare. ($2000)

From the Bellaria Collection. Ex Sternberg XXVII (7-8 November 1994), lot 20.