Rare Condition
Sale: Triton X, Lot: 439. Estimate $1000. Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007. Sold For $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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KINGS of PARTHIA. Artabanos III. Circa AD 10-38. BI Tetradrachm (13.33 g, 12h). Seleukia on the Tigris mint. Dated Daisios SE 338 (May AD 27). Diademed facing bust, long beard, long hair, no ear or earring visible / BACI
L[C
LC AP]CAKO[V]
DIKAIOV
EPIFANOVC, Artabanos on horseback left, receiving palm from Tyche, standing before him;
DAI monogram below horse. Sellwood (Artabanos II) 63.2; Shore 333. VF, toned. Well-struck with artistic obverse die. Very rare in this state.
From the David Herman Collection.