Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 659. Estimate $100.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $150. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Orodes II. Circa 57-38 BC. AR Drachm (3.94 g, 12h). Ekbatana mint. Diademed and draped bust left, wearing torque ending in sea-horse or griffin, wart on forehead; eight-rayed star to left, crescent to right; all within pelleted border / BΛΣIΛEΩΣ/BΛΣIΛEΩN ΛI ΣΛKOV EVEIΓETOV/ΔIKAIOV EΠIΦIΛNVΣ/[ΦI]ΛEΛΛNN[OΣ] (sic), archer (Arsakes I) seated right on throne, holding bow; monogram below bow, anchor symbol behind throne. Sellwood 48.6; Shore 258; PDC 42041 (same obv. die). VF, obverse struck in high relief.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection.