Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 572. Estimate $150.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $150. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Mithradates II. 121-91 BC. AR Drachm (4.03 g, 12h). Ekbatana (?) mint. Diademed and draped bust left, wearing long beard, earring, and torque ending in sea-horse; monogram to right; all within pelleted border / AZIΛEΩΣ/BAC IΛEΩ MEΓΛΛOV • APΣ VKOY/EΠIΦANΣ (sic), archer (Arsakes I) seated right on throne, holding bow. Sellwood -, but cf. 24.30 (for monogram); Shore -. Good VF, lightly toned, struck with worn dies, obverse slightly double struck. Very rare.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection. Ex Freeman & Sear MBS 12 (28 October 2005), lot 230.