386, Lot: 400. Estimate $100. Sold for $70. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Vardanes I. Circa AD 38-46. BI Tetradrachm (26mm, 14.13 g, 12h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Dated 356 SE (AD 44/5). Diademed bust left / Vardanes seated right, receiving palm from Tyche standing left, holding cornucopia; year above; [month in exergue]. Sellwood 64.28-30; Sunrise –; Shore 352. VF, edge deposits, graffiti on obverse. Overstruck on an uncertain undertype.

From the W.H. Guertin Collection.