CNG 105, Lot: 483. Estimate $500. Sold for $700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Mithradates II. 121-91 BC. AR Tetradrachm (31mm, 15.74 g, 12h). Seleukia on the Tigris mint. Struck circa 119-109 BC. Diademed bust left / Archer (Arsakes I) seated right on omphalos, holding bow in extended right hand; monogram to inner left; palm to outer right. Sellwood 24.5 corr. (< not 6; monogram behind archer); Sunrise 282; Shore 68. EF, reverse slightly off center.

From the Nisa Collection.