Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 612. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $275. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Phraates III. Circa 70/69-58/7 BC. AR Drachm (4.03 g, 12h). Court at Rhagai mint. Diademed and draped bust left, wearing short beard and torque ending in pellet; all within pelleted border / BAΣIΛEΩΣ/MEΓAΛOV APΣ AKOV EΠIΦANOVΣ/KAI ΦIΛEΛΛHNOΣ ΦIΛOΠATOPOΣ/EVEPΓETOV, archer (Arsakes I) seated right on throne, holding bow; monogram below bow. Sellwood 36.10 (Darius?); Shore 156; PDC 33976 (this coin). Near EF, spot of encrustation on reverse.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection. Ex Peus 386 (26 April 2006), lot 403.