372, Lot: 219. Estimate $75. Sold for $110. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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INDO-PARTHIANS, Aria or Margiana. Tanlis Mardates. Mid-late 1st century BC. AR Drachm (18mm, 3.33 g, 12h). Countermarked issue. Tanlis countermark – diademed head left, wearing cap; possible traces of TΛNΛHC around; all within incuse circle – on obverse of a Mithradatkart mint drachm of Phraatakes (Sellwood Type 56.6). Cf. Senior 195.5aD (for countermark) and 195.7 (for undertype); cf. HGC 12, p. 197 (for countermark). Host coin and countermark Fine, toned, porous.