Baldwin & Sons
Auction 90 24 September 2014
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ANCIENT COINS, THE DAVID SELLWOOD COLLECTION OF PARTHIAN COINS,
Vologases I (c. AD 50-77/8), Silver Drachms (4), minted at Ecbatana, bust left, with rectangular but tapering beard, hair in five distinct waves, wart on brow, wearing double banded diadem with double loop, ear-ring visible, spiral torque, rev archer enthroned right, monogram below bow, seven line inscription ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩN ΑΡΣΑΚΟY EYEPΓETOY ΔΙΚΑΙΟY ΕΠIΦΑNOYΣ ΦΙΛΕΛΛΗΝΟΣ, stylised and partly blundered (S 70.14 (2), 71.1, two Aramaic letters wl (for Wlgšy = Vologases) behind head). Good fine to about very fine. (4)
Estimate: £80-100
Vologases I (c. AD 50-77/8), Silver Drachms (4), minted at Ecbatana, bust left, with rectangular but tapering beard, hair in five distinct waves, wart on brow, wearing double banded diadem with double loop, ear-ring visible, spiral torque, rev archer enthroned right, monogram below bow, seven line inscription ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩN ΑΡΣΑΚΟY EYEPΓETOY ΔΙΚΑΙΟY ΕΠIΦΑNOYΣ ΦΙΛΕΛΛΗΝΟΣ, stylised and partly blundered (S 70.14 (2), 71.1, two Aramaic letters wl (for Wlgšy = Vologases) behind head). Good fine to about very fine. (4)
Estimate: £80-100