Fine Style and Rare

CNG 99, Lot: 407. Estimate $500. Sold for $1400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Artabanos III. 126-122 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 15.85 g, 12h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Dated SE 188 (125 BC). Diademed bust right / Demeter seated left, holding cornucopia and Nike, who crowns her with wreath; winged tritoness supporting throne; monogram to outer left, ΘΕ to inner left, ΗΠΡ (date) in exergue. Sellwood 21.3 (Artabanos I); Shore –; Sunrise 276. VF, lightly toned, obverse porous. Dies of fine style. Rare.