Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 582. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Mithradates II. 121-91 BC. Æ Chalkoi. All coins: Diademed and draped bust left, wearing long beard, earring, and torque; all within pelleted border / BAΣIΛEΩΣ MEΓAΛOY APΣAKOY, EΠIΦANOYΣ in exergue. Lot includes the following denominations and reverse types: a) Æ Tetrachalkon (7.23 g). Ekbatana mint. MI to right of bust. / Horse advancing right, left foreleg raised, MP to upper left. Cf. Sellwood 26.25; Shore -; PDC 20735 (this coin) // b) Æ Tetrachalkon (3.79 g). Rhagai mint. Pegasos advancing right. Sellwood 26.26; Shore - // c) Æ Chalkous (1.97 g). Ekbatana mint. M to right of bust / Bow in bowcase. Sellwood 26.29; Shore - // d) Similar example (1.80 g), but no M to right of bust. Cf. Sellwood 26.29; Shore -. Lot also includes e) Æ Tetrachalkon (3.88 g). Rhagai mint. BAΣIΛEΩΣ [B]AΣIΛEΩN [M]EΓΛΛOV APΣAKOV/EΠIΦANOVΣ, Pegasos advancing right. Sellwood 27.7; Shore -. Coins Fine-VF, dark green and brown patina, one chalkous has light cleaning marks. LOT SOLD AS IS, NO RETURNS. Five (5) coins in lot.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection. First coin ex Peus 376 (29 October 2003), lot 599 (part of).