Sale: CNG 66, Lot: 784. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 19 May 2004.  Sold For $875. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Phraates III. 70/69 - 58/7 BC. AR Drachm (4.22 gm). Mithradatkart mint. Struck circa 63/2-62/1 BC. Diademed facing bust / Arsakes I seated right on throne, holding bow; monogram below bow. Sellwood 35.4 var. (Darius?; legend); Shore 166 var. (monogram); BMC Parthia -; MACW 540 var. (Darius; legend). Darkly toned, good VF, minor porosity, a few spots of encrustation on obverse. Rare. ($1000)

From the Bellaria Collection. Ex Tkalec (26 March 1991), lot 190.

See Triton VII, lot 436, for the reattribution of Sellwood Type 35 coinage to Phraates III.