Extremely Rare Dichalkon

Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 506. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $2400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Arsakes I. 247-211 BC. Æ Dichalkon (3.88 g, 12h). Uncertain (Mithradakart-Nisa [?]) mint. Head left, wearing bashlyk and earring / APΣAKOY, bow in bowcase; Σ and monogram to left. Cf. Sellwood 6.2 (Arsakes II); Shore -; PDC 33628 (this coin); CNG 75, lot 577 (same obv. die); Lanz 102, lot 306 (same obv. die). VF, brown and red patina. Extremely rare.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection.