125, Lot: 130. Estimate $500. 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 (33mm, 15.73 g, 12h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Struck circa 119-109 BC. Diademed bust left, wearing tiara / BASILEWS BASI-LEWN MEGALOU ARSAKOU EPIFANOUS, Arsakes I seated right on throne, holding bow; DI in inner left field; TV in exergue. Cf. Sellwood 24.6; cf. Shore 68; cf. Classical Numismatic Group 69 (8 June 2005), lot 754. VF, strong, attractive strike. Apparently unpublished with this monogram and without the palm.

From the John F. Sullivan Collection