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ID:     83000616
     [UNVERIFIED]
Type:     Ancient East
Region:     Parthia
Issuer:     Phraates III
Date Ruled:     (70-57 B.C.)
Metal:     Silver
Denomination:     Drachm
Struck / Cast:     Struck
Weight:     3.53 g
Die Axis:     11 h
Obverse Description:     bearded bust left wearing diadem and pellet-ended torque; circular border of pellets
Reverse Legend:     ΒΑΣΙΛΣΩΣ ΜΣΓΑΛΟΥ ΑΡΣΑΚΟΥ ΣΥΣΡΓΣΤΟΥ ΣΠΙΙΝΟΥΣ ΦΙΛΣΛΛΗΝΟΣ
Reverse Description:     beardless archer wearing bashlyk and cloak seated right on throne, holding bow in right hand; below bow, monogram [~]; no border; ΣΥΣΡΓΣΤΟΥ is retrograde with lambda inverted in seven-line Greek inscription
Mint:     Mint?
Primary Reference:     Sellwood 38.4 variant (retrograde line 4)
Reference2:     cf. Shore 170
Reference3:     PDC 39607 (this coin)
Photograph Credit:     Classical Numismatic Group
Source:     http://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=153360
Special Comments:     PDC 59741
Grade:     VF, toned, slight roughness, minor smoothing in ob
Notes:     Triton XIII (5 Jan 2010), lot 616. From the Todd A. Ballen Collection. Ex Dr. Robert Gonnella Collection (Peus 388, 1 November 2006), lot 411; Peus 337 (3 November 1993), lot 201.