Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 633. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $1800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Mithradates IV. Circa 58-53 BC. AR Tetradrachm (15.32 g, 12h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Diademed and draped bust left, wearing spiral torque ending in pellet; all within pelleted border / BAΣIΛEΩΣ BAΣIΛEΩN HEΓΛΛOY/AP ΣAKOY KAI KTIΣTOY, archer (Arsakes I) seated right on throne, holding bow. Sellwood 44.1 (Orodes II); Shore -; PDC 22727 and 10514 (this coin). VF, light scratches in obverse field. Very rare.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection. Ex Gorny & Mosch 134 (11 October 2004), lot 1610; Gorny & Mosch 130 (8 March 2004), lot 1401; Peus 368 (25 April 2001), lot 352; Giessener Münzhandlung 97 (11 October 1999), lot 549.