Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 511. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Phriapatios. 185-170 BC. AR Drachm (3.85 g, 12h). Hekatompylos mint. Bust left, wearing bashlyk and earring, within pelleted border / APΣAKOY, archer (Arsakes I) seated right on omphalos, holding bow. Cf. Assar, Genealogy I, fig. 3/12; Sellwood 8.1 (Mithradates I); Shore 5 (Mithradates I). EF, porous.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection.