Parthia(?), 'Eagle Series' AR Drachm. Hekatompylos(?), circa 246-238 BC. Local standard. Head of Athena to right, wearing earring, necklace, and crested Attic helmet decorated with three olive leaves over visor and a spiral palmette on the bowl / Eagle standing to left, head to right; behind, grape cluster on vine with leaf, kerykeion above. Roma XIV, lot 335; Bopearachchi, Sophytes Series 2A; SNG ANS -; Mitchiner 26d; N&A 63-4; HGC 12, 8. 3.56g, 14mm, 6h.

Mint State; minor obv. die break, attractive hints of iridescence around devices.

From the 1960s Andragoras-Sophytes Group, present in Germany in 1975, subsequently exported to the USA.