Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 662. Estimate $100.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $60. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Orodes II. Circa 57-38 BC. AR Drachm (3.83 g, 12h). Ekbatana mint. Diademed and draped bust left, wearing torque ending in sea-horse or griffin, wart on forehead; eight-rayed star to left, crescent above eight-rayed star to right; all within pelleted border / BΛΣIΛEΛ[Σ]/BΛΣIΛEΛN Λ PKΛKOV EVEPΓE[TOV]/ΔIΛΛIOV EΠIΦANOVΣ/[Φ]IΛEΛΛN[NOΣ] (sic), archer (Arsakes I) seated right on throne, holding bow; monogram below bow, anchor symbol behind throne. Sellwood 48.8; Shore 260; PDC 39665 (this coin). VF, toned, small die break on reverse.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection. Ex Dr. Robert Gonnella Collection (Peus 388, 1 November 2006), lot 478.