Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 553. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $170. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Mithradates II. 121-91 BC. AR Drachm (3.59 g, 12h). Ekbatana mint. Struck circa 119-109 BC. Diademed and draped bust left, wearing long beard, earring, and torque ending in pellet; all within pelleted border / BAΣIΛEΩΣ MEΓΛΛOY AP ΣAKOY, EΠIΦANOVΣ in exergue, archer (Arsakes I) seated right on omphalos, holding bow. Sellwood 24.10; Shore 70. Good VF, light cleaning marks.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection.