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Auction 96  24 September 2015
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Lot 3190

Estimate: 100 GBP
Price realized: 360 GBP
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ANCIENT COINS, PARTHIAN COINS, Osroes II (c.AD 190-208), Silver Drachms (8), minted at Ecbatana, bust of Osroes left with long pointed beard, wearing double banded diadem with double loop, and tiara with earflaps, decorated with pearls on stalk around crest and a row of pearls vertically on side, ear and ear-ring visible, segmented necklet, four pendent ends to diadem, dotted border, rev archer enthroned right, monogram below bow, Aramaic Hwsrw MLK' (King Osroes), followed by a four line stylised and totally blundered "Greek" inscription (S 85.1 (monogram wrongly depicted with a dot in Sellwood's catalogue) (4), 85.4 (4)); Vologases V (AD 191-207/8), Silver Drachm, minted at Ecbatana, bust of Vologases facing, pointed beard with random strokes, wearing single banded diadem with two solid pendent ends, hair in bunches above diadem and behind ears, necklet as straight lines, dotted border, rev archer enthroned right, monogram below bow, Aramaic Wlgšy MLK' (King Vologases), followed by a four line stylised and totally blundered "Greek" inscription (S 86.4 var (necklet not as arcs, right edge broken)). The Osroes issues generally very fine to extremely fine, the Vologases V Drachm fine. (9)
from The David Sellwood Collection of Parthian Coins

Estimate: £100-150
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