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151, Lot: 127. Estimate $100.
Sold for $155. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Vologases IV. Circa AD 147-191. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 13.32 g). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Dated SE 490, month Zandikou (March, AD 179). Diademed bust left, wearing tiara; behind / Vologases seated left on throne, Tyche standing right before him, presenting a diadem and holding sceptre; V (year) above, DANDI (sic) in exergue. Cf. Sellwood 84.61-84.69 (month not listed); Shore -. VF, toned.

It appears that the engraver began the exergual legend D[USTR] (February), but then changed to [X]ANDI (March).