Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 530. Estimate $150.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $190. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Mithradates I. 165-132 BC. AR Obol (0.59 g, 12h). Nisa (?) mint. Diademed bust left, wearing long beard, within trace of wreath border / BΛΣIΛEΛΣ MΠΓAΛOY ΛPΣ ΛK[OY] (sic), archer (Arsakes I) seated right on omphalos, holding bow. Assar, Genealogy I, -; Sellwood 11.5 var. (pelleted border); Shore -; cf. Peus 376, lot 586 (drachm). VF, toned, obverse slightly off-center. Overstruck on an uncertain undertype. Very rare.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection.