Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 624. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Phraates III. Circa 70/69-58/7 BC. Æ Dichalka. Lot includes the following types: a) (3.90 g). Ekbatana mint. Struck circa 63/2-62/1 BC. Diademed and draped facing bust, wearing necklet medallion; all within pelleted border / MBAΣIΛEΩΣ/MEΓAΛ[OY] [APΣ] AKOV [AVTOKPATOPOΣ/EVEPΓETOV] EΠIΦANOVΣ/ΦIΛEΛΛHNO[Σ], horse standing right. Sellwood 36.14; cf. Shore 158; PDC 9679 (this coin) // b) Same (2.43 g). Ekbatana mint. Sellwood 35.15; cf. Shore 158 // c) (2.83 g). Uncertain mint. Diademed and draped bust left, wearing long beard and torque ending in pellet; all within pelleted border / BAΣIΛEΩΣ/MEΓAΛO[V] APΣ AK[OY] [ΦIΛEΛ]ΛHNOΣ/[E]ΠΦANOVΣ ΦIΛ[O]ΠATOP OΣ/EVEPΓE[TOV] (sic), horse standing right with left foreleg raised. Cf. Sellwood 36.19 (Darius?); cf. Shore 158. Coins near VF-good VF, green and brown patina, some areas of weak strike. Rare. LOT SOLD AS IS, NO RETURNS. Three (3) coins in lot.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection. First coin ex Dave Herman Collection (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 148, 20 September 2006), lot 241 (part of); the third ex Classical Numismatic Group E-155 (3 January 2007), lot 435 (part of).