Watch List notes:

KINGS OF PARTHIA. Mithradates II, 121-91 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 31 mm, 15.87 g, 1 h), Seleukeia on the Tigris. Diademed and draped bust of Mithradates II to left, wearing torc. Rev. BAΣIΛEΩΣ - MEΓAΛOΥ - AΡΣAKOΥ - EΠIΦANOΥΣ Arsakes I seated right on omphalos, holding bow in his right hand. Sellwood 24.1. Shore -. An attractive example with a fine portrait. The obverse struck slightly off center and with some roughness, otherwise, about extremely fine.


From a Swiss collection, ex Hess-Divo 328, 22 May 2015, 79 and previously acquired from Dr. G. Giacosa in 2000.