Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 504. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $2000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Arsakes I. 247-211 BC. AR Drachm (4.05 g, 12h). Mithradatkart-Nisa(?) mint. Head left, wearing bashlyk and earring / APΣAKOY, archer (Arsakes I) seated right on backless throne, holding bow; “krny” (partially retrograde) in Aramaic to right, monogram below throne (only traces visible). Sellwood 4.1; A&S Type 4, 4 (same dies); Shore -; PDC 10910 (this coin); CNG 75, lot 577 (same obv. die); Lanz 102, lot 306 (same obv. die). Good VF, toned, obverse struck with worn die. Very rare.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection. Ex Lanz 102 (28 May 2001), lot 305.