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Triton XVIII, Lot: 825. Estimate $2000.
Sold for $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Mithradates I. 165-132 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 15.86 g, 12h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Dated SE 173 (140/39 BC). Diademed and draped bust right, within bead-and-reel border / BAΣIΛEΩΣ M EΓAΛOY APΣA KOY ΦIΛEΛΛ HNOΣ, diademed and beardless young Herakles standing left, holding skyphos in extended right hand and cradling club in lion skin-draped left arm; ΓΟΡ (date) in exergue. Sellwood 13.3; Shore 36; Sunrise 261. Good VF, lightly toned, a few tiny metal flaws.