Watch List notes:

KINGS of PARTHIA. Mithradates II. 121-91 BC. AR Tetradrachm (31mm, 16.40 g, 1h). Seleukia on the Tigris mint. Struck circa 119-109 BC. Diademed and draped bust left, wearing long beard, earring, and torque ending in combination of two pellets and lanceate design; all within pelleted border / BAΣIΛEΩΣ MEΓΛΛOY AP ΣAKOY EΠIΦANOVΣ, archer (Arsakes I) seated right on omphalos, holding bow in outstretched right hand; monogram to inner left; palm to outer right. Sellwood 24.3; Sunrise –; Shore 66. Superb EF, minor flan flaws. Perfectly centered and struck on a broad flan.


Ex Classical Numismatic Group Inventory 715377 (September 1999).