Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 648. Estimate $100.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $90. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Orodes II. Circa 57-38 BC. AR Drachm (4.01 g, 12h). Ekbatana mint. Diademed and draped bust left, wearing torque ending in two pellets; six-rayed star to left, crescent to right; all within pelleted border / BΛ(three-bar Σ)IΛEΩ(three-bar Σ)/BΛ(three-bar Σ)IΛEΩN Λ (three-bar Σ)ΛKOV (three-bar Σ)V(three-bar Σ)IΓ(three-bar Σ)TOV/ΔIKΛIOV (three-bar Σ)IIIIΛNOV(three-bar Σ)/[Φ]IΛ(three-bar Σ)ΛΛHN(three-bar Σ) (sic), archer (Arsakes I) seated right on throne, holding bow; monogram below bow. Sellwood 47.5; Shore 239; PDC 29537 (this coin). VF.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection.