Extremely Rare Denomination

Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 762. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009.  Sold For $660. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Phriapatios to Mithradates I. Circa 185-132 BC. AR Hemidrachm (1.88 g, 12h). Hekatompylos mint. Bust left, wearing bashlyk / ΛI ΣΛKOY KΛIΛEΩΣ (sic), Archer (Arsakes I) seated right, holding bow. Sellwood (Mithradates I) 9.5; Shore -; R.C. Senior, "A few more new Indo-Greek and Indo-Scythian discoveries," ONS Newsletter 195 (Spring 2008), p. 16 (this coin); Zeno 39017 (this coin). Fine, porous. Extremely rare denomination.