Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 600. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Mithradates II. Circa October 122 - October 91 BC. AR Tetradrachm (15.93 gm, 1h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Struck circa 119-109 BC. Diademed bust left / BASILEWS MEGALOU ARS-AKOU [E]PIFANO[US], Arsakes I seated right on omphalos, holding bow in his right hand; palm branch in outer right field. Cf. Sellwood 24.3; cf. Shore 66; cf. De Morgan pl. V, 14; cf. MACW 511. EF, a few small spots of light encrustation on obverse. ($750)