Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 639. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Orodes II. Circa 57-38 BC. AR Drachm (3.94 g, 12h). Mithradatkart mint. Diademed and draped bust left, wearing torque ending in two pellets; all within pelleted border / BΛZIΛEΩZ/(archaic Z)ΛIEΩN ΛPZ ΓΛVO (three-bar Σ)ΛIVNVN/ИΛHOΠ(three-bar Σ) retrograde) EOИOVΞ(three-bar Σ)/ΠIHΛEΛΛH(...) (sic), archer (Arsakes I) seated right on throne, holding bow; monogram below bow. Sellwood 45.14 var. (rev. legend); cf. Shore 225; cf. PDC 32284. Superb EF.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection.