Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 508. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Arsakes II. 211-185 BC. AR Drachm (4.15 g, 12h). Rhagai-Arsakeia(?) mint. Head left, wearing bashlyk and earring / APΣAKOY, archer (Arsakes I) seated right on omphalos, holding bow; to right, eagle standing facing, head left, with wings displayed. Sellwood 6.1; A&S Type 6, 20 (same obv. die); Shore 4. EF, small die break on reverse, reverse struck a bit weakly.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection.