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Auction 37  5-6 January 2016
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Lot 29

Estimate: 15 000 USD
Price realized: 16 000 USD
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ANCIENT COINS, KINGS OF PARTHIA, Parthian Kingdom. Mithradates I (164-132 BC). Silver Tetradrachm, 15.02g, Seleukeia on the Tigris, SE 173 (140/39 BC). Diademed and bearded bust of Mithradates I right. Rev. Herakles standing left, holding cup, lion's skin and club, monogram to left; date () in exergue (Sellwood 13.3; Shore 36; Sunrise 261, this coin). A remarkable coin with a fabulous portrait of Mithradate the Great, boldly struck, lustrous and untoned on a nice large flan, nearly mint state. Very rare.
From The Sunrise Collection

Estimate: $ 15,000
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