90, Lot: 45. Estimate $75. Sold for $67. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Phraates IV. 38-2 BC. AR Drachm (19mm, 3.69 gm). Ekbatana mint. Diademed bust left, wart on forehead; star-in-crescent before, eagle flying left behind, crowning him / Arsakes I seated right on throne, holding bow; monogram below bow. Sellwood 54.7; Shore 297; BMC Parthia pg. 126, 219. VF, toned, light cleaning marks.

From the Bellaria Collection. Ex Sotheby's (7 December 1982), lot 32 (part of).

See lot 42 for notes on the reign and coinage of this king.