Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 653. Estimate $75.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $160. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Orodes II. Circa 57-38 BC. AR Drachm (4.03 g, 12h). Laodikeia mint. Diademed and draped bust left, wearing torque ending in pellet; eight-rayed star to left, crescent to right; all within pelleted border / BΛ(three-bar Σ)IΛ[EΩ[(three-bar Σ)]/BΛ(three-bar Σ)IΛEΩN ΛI (three-bar Σ)ΛK[OV] (three-bar Σ)V(three-bar Σ)PΓ(three-bar Σ)TOV/ΔIKΛOV [E]ΠIIΛNOV(three-bar Σ)/[ΦIΛ](three-bar Σ)ΛΛHNO(three-bar Σ), archer (Arsakes I) seated right on throne, holding bow; Λ below bow. Sellwood 47.16; Shore -. VF, toned, obverse slightly softly struck, slight double strike on reverse. Rare mint.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection.