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 Drachms (5), bare-headed, diademed and bearded bust left, wearing single turn torque, rev archer seated right on omphalos, three line inscription ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΜΕΓΑΛΟY ΑΡΣΑΚΟY, reel-and-pellet border on obverse, minted at Hekatompylos(?) (4); laurel wreath border on obverse, letter N in field right on reverse, minted at Nisa (S 11.1 (4), 11.4 var). Fine to about very fine, last pierced and very rare. (5)
Estimate: £180-220
Mithradates I (164-132 BC), Silver Drachms (5), bare-headed, diademed and bearded bust left, wearing single turn torque, rev archer seated right on omphalos, three line inscription ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΜΕΓΑΛΟY ΑΡΣΑΚΟY, reel-and-pellet border on obverse, minted at Hekatompylos(?) (4); laurel wreath border on obverse, letter N in field right on reverse, minted at Nisa (S 11.1 (4), 11.4 var). Fine to about very fine, last pierced and very rare. (5)
Estimate: £180-220