124, Lot: 128. Estimate $300. Sold for $180. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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KINGS of PARTHIA. Phraates IV. 38-2 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 14.47 g, 12h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Dated SE Audynaios - (December, -BC). Diademed bust left, long pointed beard, wart on brow; eight-rayed star on mantle / [B]A
SIL[EWS] BA
SILEW[N] AP
SAKOV
EUERGETO[V]
DIKAIOV
[E]PIFANOUS [FILE]LLH[NOS, Phraates seated right on throne, Tyche standing left before him, presenting a diadem and holding cornucopiae; AV
DNAI (month) in exergue. Cf. Sellwood 50 (for type); F. de Callataÿ,
Les tétradrachmes d'Orodès II et de Phraate IV [Studia Iranica 14] p. 80 (D125/unlisted rev. die); cf. Shore 273 (for obv. type). VF, toned, struck on a broad flan, overstruck on an uncertain undertype. Rare.