354, Lot: 272. Estimate $100. Sold for $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Arsakes II. 211-185 BC. Æ Dichalkous (14mm, 3.09 g, 11h). Rhagai-Arsakeia(?) mint. Struck circa 211-209 BC. Head left, wearing bashlyk / Eagle with open wings standing right on bucranium; [to right, head of horse right]. Sellwood –; B. Simonetta, “Brevi note di numismatica Partica: Chalkoi di Arsaces II,” SM 144 (November 1986), p. 88; Sunrise –; Shore –; PDC 10404 (same obv. die); Triton IX, lot 1088. Good Fine, green patina, light smoothing. Very rare.

The obverse of this issue was struck from an obverse die that was also used for drachms (see A&S Type 6, obv. die 6).