Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 570. 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 (4.12 g, 12h). Rhagai mint. Diademed and draped bust left, wearing long beard, earring, and torque ending in sea-horse; monogram to left; [all within pelleted border] / BAΣIΛEΩΣ BAΣ IΛEΩN MEΓΛΛOY AP ΣAKOY/EΠIΦANOVΣ, archer (Arsakes I) seated right on throne, holding bow. Sellwood 27.4; Shore -; PDC 39554 (this coin). VF, toned. Extremely rare monogram.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection. Ex Dr. Robert Gonnella Collection (Peus 388, 1 November 2006), lot 352.