Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 515. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $1800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Phriapatios. 185-170 BC. AR Drachm (3.80 g, 12h). Hekatompylos mint. Head left, wearing bashlyk and earring, within pelleted border / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΘEOY APΣ AKOY, archer (Arsakes I) seated right on omphalos, holding bow. Assar, Genealogy I -; Sellwood 10.15 (Mithradates I); cf. Shore 18 (Mithradates I). Near EF, toned, traces of encrustation and light cleaning marks on reverse. Very rare.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection.