Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 667. Estimate $100.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $120. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Orodes II. Circa 57-38 BC. AR Drachm (3.92 g, 12h). Rhagai mint. Diademed and draped bust left, wearing torque ending in sea-horse or griffin, wart on forehead; eight-rayed star to left, crescent above eight-rayed star to right; all within pelleted border / BΛ(three-bar Σ)IΛEΩ[(three-bar Σ)]/BΛΞIΛEΩN ΛP ΣΛKO[V] EVEIΓ(three-bar Σ)V/ΔIAKEOV EΠIIΛHOV(three-bar Σ)/[Φ]IΛEΛΛNN(three-bar Σ) (sic), archer (Arsakes I) seated right on throne, holding bow; monogram below bow, M-shaped crown anchor symbol behind throne. Sellwood 48.10-11 var. (anchor type); Shore 262-263 var. (same); cf. PDC 34811. VF.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection.