397, Lot: 240. Estimate $500. Sold for $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Phraates II. 132-127 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29.5mm, 15.86 g, 12h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Diademed bust right / Male deity seated left, holding cornucopia and Nike, who crowns him with wreath; monogram and archaic Ξ in exergue. Sellwood 17.3; Sunrise –; Shore –; PDC 21532. VF, rough areas on reverse. Very rare.

From the Nisa Collection.