Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 516. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Phriapatios to Mithradates I. Circa 185-132 BC. AR Drachm (3.78 g, 12h). Hekatompylos mint. Head left, wearing bashlyk and earring, within pelleted border / APΣ AKOY BAΣIΛEΩΣ, archer (Arsakes I) seated right on omphalos, holding bow. Assar, Genealogy I, fig. 3/13; Sellwood 9.1 (Mithradates I); Shore 7-8 (Mithradates I). EF, lightly toned.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection.