Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 592. Estimate $150.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Mithradates III. Circa 87-79 BC. AR Drachm (4.03 g, 12h). Ekbatana(?) mint. Diademed and draped bust left, wearing tiara with ear flap, long beard, and torque ending in pellet; eight-rayed star on tiara; all within pelleted border / IΛCIΛEΩΣ/HEΓAΛOV AI(C retrograde) ΛKOV AVTOKIΛTOIOΣ/IIΛOΠATOIOC EΠIIANOVΣ/IIΛCΛΛHNOΣ (sic), archer (Arsakes I) seated right on throne, holding bow. Cf. Sellwood (Orodes I) 31.5; cf. Shore 122. VF. Of unusual style.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection.