Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 641. Estimate $100.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $170. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Orodes II. Circa 57-38 BC. AR Drachm (3.92 g, 12h). Kangavar mint. Diademed and draped bust left, wearing torque ending in two pellets; all within pelleted border / BΛ(three-bar Σ)IΛEΩ[(three-bar Σ)]/BΛ(three-bar Σ)IΛEΩN ΛP(three-bar Σ)ΛKO[V] (three-bar Σ)VEPΓETOV/ΔIKΛIOV EΠIΦΛNOV(three-bar Σ)/[Φ]IΛEΛΛHNO(three-bar Σ), archer (Arsakes I) seated right on throne, holding bow; K below bow. Sellwood 45.21 var. (torque ending in one pellet); cf. Shore 230; PDC 39639 (this coin). VF, toned.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection. Ex Dr. Robert Gonnella Collection (Peus 388, 1 November 2006), lot 448; Berk BBS 80 (18 January 1994), lot 222.