Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 519. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $180. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Phriapatios to Mithradates I. Circa 185-132 BC. AR Drachm (4.03 g, 12h). Uncertain mint. Head left, wearing bashlyk and earring, within pelleted border / BAΣIΛEΩΣ MEΓAΛOY APΣ AKOY, archer (Arsakes I) seated right on omphalos, holding bow; monogram below bow. Assar, Genealogy I -; Sellwood 10.6 (Mithradates I); Shore 15 (Mithradates I); PDC 33954 (this coin). VF, toned. Very rare.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection. Ex Peus 386 (26 April 2006), lot 381.