Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 610. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $450. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Phraates III. Circa 70/69-58/7 BC. AR Drachm (3.83 g, 1h). Court at Rhagai mint. Struck circa 63/2-62/1 BC. Diademed and draped facing bust, wearing spiral torque; all within pelleted border / MBAEIΛEΩΣ/MEΓAΛOV APΣ AK[OV AVTO]KPATOPOΣ/[E]VEPΓETOVΣ K ΠIΦANOVΣ/AI ΦIΛEΛΛHNO[Σ] (sic), archer (Arsakes I) seated right on throne, holding bow; monogram below bow. Sellwood 35.13 (Darius?); Shore -; PDC 42038 (this coin). VF, porous. Rare.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group E-155 (3 January 2007), lot 113; Peus 386 (26 April 2006), lot 406; Triton IX (10 January 2006), lot 1095.