Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 521. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Phriapatios to Mithradates I. Circa 185-132 BC. AR Drachm (3.90 g, 11h). 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, monogram in exergue. Assar, Genealogy -; cf. Sellwood 10.9 ([Mithradates I] for control marks in fields) and 10.2-3 (for control mark in exergue); Shore -; cf. Peus 376, lot 578 (same obv. die). Good VF, areas of light toning. Very rare variety.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection. Ex UBS 69 (23 January 2007), lot 553.