Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 616. Estimate $150.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $160. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Phraates III. Circa 70/69-58/7 BC. AR Drachm (3.53 g, 11h). Court at Ekbatana mint. Diademed and draped bust left, wearing long beard and torque ending in pellet; all within pelleted border / RAΣIΛEΩΣ/MEΓAΛOY APΣAK[OY] [EV]E(PΓ retrograde)ETOV (three-bar Σ)IΠIΦANOVΣ/ΦIΛEΛΛHN[OΣ] (sic), archer (Arsakes I) seated right on throne, holding bow; monogram below bow. Sellwood 38.4 var. (rev. legend); cf. Shore 170; PDC 39607 (this coin). VF, toned, slight roughness, minor smoothing in obverse fields.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection. Ex Dr. Robert Gonnella Collection (Peus 388, 1 November 2006), lot 411; Peus 337 (3 November 1993), lot 201.