Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 551. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Mithradates II. 121-91 BC. AR Tetradrachm (15.89 g, 12h). Seleukia on the Tigris mint. Struck circa 119-109 BC. Diademed and draped bust left, wearing long beard, earring, and torque; all within pelleted border / BAΣIΛEΩΣ MEΓΛΛOY AP ΣAKOY, EΠIΦANOVΣ in exergue, archer (Arsakes I) seated right on omphalos, holding bow; palm to outer right. Sellwood 24.5; Shore 68. EF, reverse slightly double-struck.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection.