Sale: CNG 67, Lot: 983. Estimate $400.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 22 September 2004.  Sold For $1250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MESOPOTAMIA, Kingdom of Edessa. Waël. 163-165 AD. Æ 22mm (8.65 gm). Draped bust left of Vologases IV, wearing Parthian style cap; B behind / Bare-headed bust of Waël left in wreath. BMC Mesopotamia pg. 91, 1; MACW 437. VF, black patina. Rare. ($400)

Edessa was an independent city in an unenviable position between the feuding Roman and Parthian empires. Waël was appointed to the throne by the Parthian Vologases IV, who had deposed the legitimate king Ma'nu VIII. Waël's reign lasted a brief two years before he himself was deposed by the Romans.