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Electronic Auction 382  7 September 2016
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Lot 189

Estimate: 100 USD
Price realized: 60 USD
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KINGS of PARTHIA. Phraates III. Circa 70/69-58/7 BC. AR Drachm (20mm, 3.69 g, 12h). Court mint at Nisa (?). Struck circa 68-62 BC. Diademed bust left / Archer (Arsakes I) seated right on throne, holding bow; monogram below bow; exergual lines of reverse legend oriented outward. Sellwood 36.15 var. (position of exergual lines in rev. legend); Sunrise –; Shore –; PDC 6356 = D. Sellwood, "The drachms of the Parthian Dark Age," JRAS (1976) pl. 3, 70 (same obv. die). VF, toned, minor roughness. Very rare.

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