Baldwin & Sons
Auction 90 24 September 2014
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ANCIENT COINS, THE DAVID SELLWOOD COLLECTION OF PARTHIAN COINS,
Mithradates I (164-132 BC), Silver Tetradrachm, minted at Seleucia on the Tigris, diademed and bearded bust right, reel-and-pellet border, rev naked Heracles standing left, wine-cup and club in right and left hands respectively, lion's skin over left arm, four line inscription ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΜΕΓΑΛΟY ΑΡΣΑΚΟY ΦΙΛΕΛΛΗΝΟΣ, no monogram, date ΔΟΡ in exergue (174 SEM = 139/8 BC), 12.36g, 12h (Petrowicz (1904), 183, no.3 (Valarsaces of Armenia), Taf. XXIV, 6, this coin, only reverse illustrated; S 13.5; Shore 37, this coin; Sunrise 262). Fine, very softly struck, scarce for date.
ex Alexander von Petrowicz collection
ex Ars Classica - Naville Sale XII (1926), 129 and pl.61, no.2094
ex Shore Collection
ex CNG Auction 36, 5-6 December 1995, no.37
Estimate: £100-150
Mithradates I (164-132 BC), Silver Tetradrachm, minted at Seleucia on the Tigris, diademed and bearded bust right, reel-and-pellet border, rev naked Heracles standing left, wine-cup and club in right and left hands respectively, lion's skin over left arm, four line inscription ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΜΕΓΑΛΟY ΑΡΣΑΚΟY ΦΙΛΕΛΛΗΝΟΣ, no monogram, date ΔΟΡ in exergue (174 SEM = 139/8 BC), 12.36g, 12h (Petrowicz (1904), 183, no.3 (Valarsaces of Armenia), Taf. XXIV, 6, this coin, only reverse illustrated; S 13.5; Shore 37, this coin; Sunrise 262). Fine, very softly struck, scarce for date.
ex Alexander von Petrowicz collection
ex Ars Classica - Naville Sale XII (1926), 129 and pl.61, no.2094
ex Shore Collection
ex CNG Auction 36, 5-6 December 1995, no.37
Estimate: £100-150