Sale: CNG 66, Lot: 769. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 19 May 2004.  Sold For $675. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Mithradates II. Circa October 122 - October 91 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.36 gm). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Struck circa 119-109 BC. Diademed bust left / Arsakes I seated right on omphalos, holding bow; monogram behind and in exergue, palm to outer right. Sellwood 24.7 corr.; Shore -; BMC Parthia -; MACW -. Toned, good VF, obverse a little off center, light porosity. ($750)

From the Bellaria Collection. Ex Spink Taisei 5 (3 July 1988), lot 469.

Below the monogram on the obverse, there may be traces of a monogram that has been erased from the obverse die.