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Auction 103  14 September 2016
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Lot 440

Estimate: 1500 USD
Price realized: 1800 USD
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KINGS of PARTHIA. Artabanos II. 127-126 BC. AR Tetradrachm (31mm, 16.27 g, 1h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Dated SE 187 (126 BC). Diademed head right / Demeter seated left, holding cornucopia and Nike, who crowns her with wreath; winged tritoness supporting throne; Θ to outer left, (archaic Z)ΠΡ (date) in exergue. Sellwood –; Assar, Revised, fig. 13 = Assar, Early II, fig. 19 = Sunrise 274 = New York Sale XXXVII, lot 42; Assar, Recent, p. 22, fig. 9 = Triton V, lot 1575 = Sotheby's (25 May 2000), lot 25 (same dies); New York Sale XXXIV, lot 289 (same dies). VF, minor porosity, light cleaning marks, spot of copper deposit on edge of reverse. Very rare.

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