Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 554. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Mithradates II. 121-91 BC. AR Drachm (4.14 g, 12h). Rhagai mint. Struck circa 119-109 BC. Diademed and draped bust left, wearing long beard, earring, and torque ending in sea-horse; monogram to right; all within pelleted border / BAΣIΛEΩΣ MEΓΛΛOY AP ΣAKOY, EΠIΦANOVΣ in exergue; all within guidelines, archer (Arsakes I) seated right on omphalos, holding bow. Sellwood 24.13; Shore 71; PDC 24598 (this coin). Good VF, toned. A well-centered example.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection. Ex Bellaria Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 66 (19 May 2004), lot 770.