Sale: CNG 67, Lot: 986. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 22 September 2004.  Sold For $525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Phraates II. 132-126 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.01 gm). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Struck circa 129-128 BC. Diademed bust right / Bearded male deity enthroned left, wearing chiton and kalathos, holding Nike and cornucopiae; two monograms in exergue. Sellwood 17.1 corr. (monograms reversed); Shore -. VF, toned, light cleaning marks, scattered porosity. ($750)

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 54 (14 June 2000), lot 836.

In Sellwood, the arrangement of the monograms is correct in the line-drawing of the coin, but mistakenly reversed in the line-drawing of the reverse legend and in the description of type 17.1.