355, Lot: 234. Estimate $150. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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KINGS of PARTHIA. Artabanos I (Arsakes II). 211-185 BC. AR Drachm (19mm, 3.80 g, 12h). Hekatompylos mint. Head left, wearing bashlyk / Archer (Arsakes I) seated right on omphalos, holding bow. Assar,
Genealogy I, fig. 3/11; Sellwood 7.1 (Mithradates I); Shore 5 corr. (Mithradates I; Sellwood 7.1 not 8.1); Sunrise 245. Good VF, find patina, worn at high points, a couple of light scratches under tone.
For the reattribution of the Sellwood Type 7 coinage to Artabanos I (Arsakes II), see Sunrise pp. 115-6.