Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 514. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $570. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Phriapatios. 185-170 BC. AR Drachm (4.23 g, 12h). Uncertain mint. Head left, wearing bashlyk and earring, within pelleted border / AP ΣAKOY BAΣIΛEΩΣ, archer (Arsakes I) seated right on omphalos, holding bow; Σ in exergue. Assar, Genealogy I, fig. 3/15; Sellwood 9.3 (Mithradates I); Shore -; PDC 31679 (this coin). VF, toned. Very rare.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection. Ex Peus 384 (2 November 2005), lot 365; Peus 333 (6 May 1992), lot 390.