Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 542. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Phraates II. 132-126 BC. AR Drachm (4.01 g, 12h). Epardos mint. Diademed bust left, wearing short beard; ЄΠAP downwards to right; all within pelleted border / BAΣI ΛEΩΣ/MEΓ AΛOY down right field, APΣAKOY/OEOΠATOPO[Σ] down left; legend with dividing lines, archer (Arsakes I) seated right on omphalos, holding bow. Sellwood 16.13; Shore 53 (same obv. die); PDC 31686 (this coin). VF, toned.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection. Ex Peus 384 (2 November 2005), lot 372.