125, Lot: 132. Estimate $200. Sold for $165. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Gotarzes II. 40-51 AD. BI Tetradrachm (27mm, 14.52 g, 12h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Dated Hyperberetaios 358 (September, 47 AD). Diademed bust left, long pointed beard, lock of hair on brow / [BACILEWC BACILEWN AP]CAK[OV EUERGETO[V] DIKAIOU EPIFANOV[C FILE]LLHN[OC], Gotarzes seated right on throne, Tyche standing left before him, presenting a diadem and holding cornucopiae; HNT (year) above, UPERBETAIOU (month; degraded) in exergue. Sellwood 65.17; Shore 358 var. (month). VF, toned, hairline flan crack.

From the John F. Sullivan Collection