Roma Numismatics Ltd > E-Sale 115Auction date: 21 December 2023
Lot number: 500

Price realized: Unsold
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Lot description:


Kings of Parthia, Phriapatios Æ Dichalkon. Hekatompylos mint, 185-170 BC. Head to left, wearing bashlyk / ΑΡΣΑΚΟΥ(retrograde), horse prancing to right. Sellwood 8.2 (Mithradates I; chalkous); Sunrise 249 (chalkous); Shore 22. 3.16g, 15mm, 12h.

Very Fine.

Ex VAuctions, Auction 323, 17 March 2017, lot 239.

Phriapatios is believed to have been the grandnephew of Arsaces I, the founder of the Parthian dynasty, and father of three (or four) Parthian rulers including Phraates I, Mithradates I, and Artabanus I.

Estimate: 60 GBP