Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 564. Estimate $150.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Mithradates II. 121-91 BC. AR Drachm (4.18 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, archer (Arsakes I) seated right on throne, holding bow; E in outer left field. Sellwood 26.14; Shore 82; PDC 39545 (this coin). VF, toned.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection. Ex Dr. Robert Gonnella Collection (Peus 388, 1 November 2006), lot 341; G. Hirsch 178 (12 May 1993), lot 495.