GREEK COINS
Persia, Kings of Khwarazmia (Chorasmia), Artabanos III
Tetradrachm first century AD, AR 13.36 g. Bearded bust right, wearing cap-like headdress with posterior flap; behind, Nike flying right, crowning him; all within bead-and-reel border. Rev. YIVEΩIE MELYV EIΛVIΛV (blundered Greek legend) The king on horseback r.; to left, tamgha. M. Federov, "Money Circulation of Khwarezm in the Ancient Period," ONS Newsletter 182 (Winter 2005), p. 18. Vainberg, Group A III, 7 = CAAU 307; S.P. Tolstov, "The Coins of the Shahs of Ancient Khwarizm and the Ancient Khwarizmi Alphabet," Vestnik drevney Istorii (Moscow, 1938), pl. VI, 1 = R.B. Whitehead, "Notes on the Indo-Greeks, Part II," NC 1947, p. 38, fig. 3 = Göbl, Dokumente, pl. V = MIG Type 498.
Rare. Good very fine