Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 615. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $375. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Phraates III. Circa 70/69-58/7 BC. AR Drachm (4.16 g, 12h). Court at Ekbatana mint. Diademed and draped bust left, wearing long beard and torque ending in pellet; all within pelleted border / BAΣIΛEΩΣ/MEΓAΛOV APΣAKOY [EV]EPΓETOV EIΠΦANOVΣ/ΦIΛEΛΛHN[OΣ] (sic), archer (Arsakes I) seated right on throne, holding bow. Sellwood 38.4 var. (rev. legend); cf. Shore 170. EF, reverse double struck.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection.