397, Lot: 262. Estimate $200. Sold for $160. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Uncertain Usurper (Tiridates?). April/May-October/December 27 BC. BI Tetradrachm (29mm, 14.74 g, 12h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Dated 285 SE (27 BC). Diademed bust left / Phraates seated left, holding Nike, who crowns him with wreath, and scepter; date below throne, month off flan. Callataÿ 79-86; Sellwood 55.4 (Tiridates) Sunrise 397 var. (month visible in exergue); Shore 309 var. (same). Near VF, graffiti on obverse.

From the Nisa Collection.