Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 541. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $350. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Phraates II. 132-126 BC. AR Drachm (3.97 g, 12h). Apameia mint. Diademed bust left, wearing short beard; ΛΠΛ downwards to right; all within pelleted border / BΛΣI ΛEΩΣ/MEΓ ΛΛOV down right field, ΛPΣΛKO V/OEΩATOP (sic) down left; legend with dividing lines, archer (Arsakes I) seated right on omphalos, holding bow. Sellwood 16.12 var. (rev. legend); cf. Shore 52; PDC 4719 and 33961 (this coin). Good VF, toned, obverse slightly double struck. Very rare.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection. Ex Peus 386 (26 April 2006), lot 388; Peus 363, (26 April 2000), lot 5110.