386, Lot: 392. Estimate $100. Sold for $60. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Phraates IV. Circa 38/7-2 BC. BI Tetradrachm (28mm, 14.05 g, 12h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Dated Xandikos SE 287 (March 25 BC). Diademed bust left / Phraates seated right, receiving palm from Tyche standing left, holding cornucopia; year below throne; month in exergue. Sellwood 51.23-4 var. (month); Sunrise –; Shore 272 var. (month); cf. Callataÿ 254 var. (same). Fine, deposits, some roughness, light graffiti in obverse fields.

From the W.H. Guertin Collection.