Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 520. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Phriapatios to Mithradates I. Circa 185-132 BC. AR Drachm (3.92 g, 2h). Uncertain mint. Head left, wearing bashlyk and earring, within pelleted border / BAΣIΛEΩΣ MEΓAΛOY APΣ AKOY, archer (Arsakes I) seated right on omphalos, holding bow; Θ to outer left, monogram to outer right. Assar, Genealogy I -; Sellwood 10.9 (Mithradates I); Shore -; PDC 10917 (this coin). Good VF, toned, obverse struck with worn die, some porosity. Very rare.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection. Ex Bellaria Collection (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 90, 26 May 2004), lot 8; Lanz 102 (28 May 2001), lot 312.