336, Lot: 156. Estimate $100. Sold for $150. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Meherdates. Usurper, AD 49-50. AR Drachm (21mm, 3.75 g, 12h). Ekbatana mint. Diademed bust facing, wearing tiara; stars flanking / Archer (Arsakes I) seated right on throne, holding bow; monogram below bow. Sellwood 67.1 (Vonones II); Shore 368 (Vonones II). VF, toned, obverse die crack.

Ex Elsen 35 (2 July 1994), lot 164.

Since the offering of the Bellaria Collection in Triton IX, CNG's Parthian attributions have been made in accordance with the research of G.R.F. Assar, who had been working with the late Dr. Sellwood on an update to the standard reference for the coinage.