Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 651. Estimate $100.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $70. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Orodes II. Circa 57-38 BC. AR Drachm (3.97 g, 12h). Mithradatkart mint. Diademed and draped bust left, wearing torque ending in two pellets; eight-rayed star to left, crescent to right; all within pelleted border / IΛ(three-bar Σ)IΛEΩ[(three-bar Σ)]/(three-bar Σ)IΛEΩN VP(three-bar Σ)ΛK OΛE(Γ retrograde)TV/ΔIKΛIOV EΠIΦΛNOV(three-bar Σ)/[ΦI]ΛEΛΛHNO(three-bar Σ) (sic), archer (Arsakes I) seated right on throne, holding bow; monogram below bow. Sellwood 47.9; Shore 241. VF.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection.