Watch List notes:

KINGS of PARTHIA. Mithradates II. 121-91 BC. AR Tetradrachm (31mm, 15.87 g, 12h). Seleukia on the Tigris mint. Struck circa 119-109 BC. Diademed and draped bust left, wearing long beard, earring, and torque ending in combination of two pellets and lanceate design; all within pelleted border / BAΣIΛEΩΣ MEΓΛΛOY AP ΣAKOY, EΠIΦANOVΣ in exergue, archer (Arsakes I) seated right on omphalos, holding bow in outstretched right hand; palm to outer right; TV in exergue. Sellwood 24.4; Shore 67; Sunrise 284. Superb EF, some scattered light porosity on reverse. Exceptional example.


Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 33 (6 April 2006), lot 176; Triton V (15 January 2002), lot 1610.