Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 537. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $275. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Phraates II. 132-126 BC. AR Drachm (4.34 g, 12h). Ekbatana mint. Diademed bust left, wearing short beard, within pelleted border / BAΣI ΛEΩΣ/MEΓ AΛOY down right field, APΣAKOY/ΘEOΠATOPOΣ down left; legend with dividing lines, archer (Arsakes I) seated right on omphalos, holding bow. Sellwood 16.2; cf. Shore 42; PDC 39516 (this coin). VF, lightly toned, obverse struck with worn die.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection. Ex Dr. Robert Gonnella Collection (Peus 388, 1 November 2006), lot 310; Peus 334 (4 November 1992), lot 554.