Watch List notes:

KINGS of PERSIS. Uncertain king III. 2nd century AD. AR Drachm (18.5mm, 2.98 g, 1h). Istakhr (Persepolis) mint. Bearded bust left, wearing diadem and Parthian-style tiara decorated with three-pellets-in-crescent; triskeles to right / Figure standing left, holding uncertain object. K&M 5/13 var. (crescent, not triskeles, to right); cf. Alram 641 (hemidrachm); Tyler-Smith, Parcel –; cf. Sunrise 632 (hemidrachm); BMC –; DeMorgan –; Zeno –. VF, toned, a couple of scratches under tone in obverse field. Apparently a unique variety of a very rare type.


From the Nisa Collection.