90, Lot: 49. Estimate $100. Sold for $60. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Artabanos III. 10-38 AD. AR Drachm (19mm, 3.53 gm). Mithradatkart mint. Diademed bust left, square-cut beard, almost straight hair, earring visible; star-in-crescent before / Arsakes I seated right on throne, holding bow; monogram below bow. Sellwood 63.12 (Artabanos II); Shore 347 (Artabanos II); BMC Parthia pg. 167, 50 (Gotarzes). Good VF for issue. An attractive example of a typically crude issue.

From the Bellaria Collection.

See lot 47 for notes on the reign and coinage of this king.