Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 725. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $150. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Vardanes I. Circa AD 40-45. AR Tetradrachm (14.46 g, 12h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Dated Dios SE 354 (October AD 43). Diademed bust left, wearing short beard and spiral torque; all within pelleted border / [BA](three-bar Σ)IΛE[ω(three-bar Σ)]/BA(three-bar Σ)IΛEω[N] AP(three-bar Σ)AK(quadrate O)Y/EYEPΓET(quadrate O)Y ΔIKAI(quadrate O)Y EΠIΦAN(quadrate O)Y(three-bar Σ)/[ΦI]ΛEΛΛHN[(quadrate O)(three-bar Σ)], Vardanes seated right, receiving palm from Tyche standing left; ΔNT (year) in field above, ΔI(quadrate O)Y (month) in exergue. Sellwood 64.11-19 var. (month); Shore -; PDC 39741 (this coin). VF.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection. Ex Dr. Robert Gonnella Collection (Peus 388, 1 November 2006), lot 579.