Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 802. Estimate $150.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $110. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Osroes II. Circa AD 190. AR Drachm (3.55 g, 11h). Ekbatana mint. Diademed bust left, wearing long beard, earring, and tiara with ear flap and spiral torque, and decorated with “hooks”; all within pelleted border / IVIΛIIVIΛI/IVIΛIVIΛIVIΛ ΛIVIΛΛ/VIΛIIVIΛI XΛIΛI/XΛIΛI(three-bar Σ) (sic), archer (Arsakes I) seated right on throne, holding bow; monogram below bow. Sellwood 85 var. (legend); Shore 437 var. (same). EF, toned.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection.