90, Lot: 64. Estimate $100. Sold for $62. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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KINGS of PARTHIA. Vologases IV. 147-191 AD. Æ Dichalkos (15mm, 4.05 gm). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Dated Seleukid Era 491 (179/80 AD). Diademed bust left, wearing tiara decorated with "hooks" and curved neckflap; long tapering beard; date before / Turreted bust of Tyche right, holding wreath; [A before]. Sellwood 84.160; Shore -; BMC Parthia pg. 234, 80 (Vologases III). VF, dark green patina with earthen highlights, light reverse roughness.
From the Bellaria Collection.
See lot 61 for notes on the reign and coinage of this king.