KINGS of PARTHIA. Mithradates I. 165-132 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 15.25 g, 12h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Dated 173 SE (140/39 BC). Diademed bust right / Young Herakles standing left, holding skyphos and club; monogram to outer left; ΓOP (date) in exergue. Sellwood 13.3; Sunrise 261; Shore 36. Toned, trace of smoothing on obverse, some weakness on reverse. VF. Very rare.
From the Lampasas Collection. Ex Weise Collection; Peus 371 (25 April 2002), lot 244; Classical Numismatic Group 53 (15 March 2000), lot 737.