Baldwin & Sons
Auction 90 24 September 2014
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ANCIENT COINS, THE DAVID SELLWOOD COLLECTION OF PARTHIAN COINS,
Osroes II (c. AD 190-208), Silver Drachms (5), minted at Ecbatana, bust left with long pointed beard, wearing double banded diadem with double loop, and tiara with earflaps, decorated with pearls on stalk around crest and a row of pearls vertically on side, ear and ear-ring visible, segmented necklet, four pendent ends to diadem, rev archer enthroned right, monogram below bow, Aramaic Hwsrw MLK' (King Osroes), followed by four line stylised and blundered "Greek" inscription (S 85.1 (4), monogram wrongly depicted with a dot in Sellwood's catalogue, 85.3). Fine to about very fine. (5)
Estimate: £40-60
Osroes II (c. AD 190-208), Silver Drachms (5), minted at Ecbatana, bust left with long pointed beard, wearing double banded diadem with double loop, and tiara with earflaps, decorated with pearls on stalk around crest and a row of pearls vertically on side, ear and ear-ring visible, segmented necklet, four pendent ends to diadem, rev archer enthroned right, monogram below bow, Aramaic Hwsrw MLK' (King Osroes), followed by four line stylised and blundered "Greek" inscription (S 85.1 (4), monogram wrongly depicted with a dot in Sellwood's catalogue, 85.3). Fine to about very fine. (5)
Estimate: £40-60