Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 680. Estimate $150.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $110. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Phraates IV. Circa 38-2 BC. AR Drachm (4.01 g, 12h). Court at Rhagai mint. Diademed and draped bust left, wart on forehead, wearing pointed beard and segmented necklet; to right, eagle left, holding wreath; all within pelleted border / BΛ(three-bar Σ)IΛ(three-bar Σ)Ω[(three-bar Σ)]/BΛ(three-bar Σ)IΛ(three-bar Σ) ΛI(three-bar Σ)AKO EYEIΓE(...)/ΔIKAIO (three-bar Σ)IΠIΦΛIN(quadrate O)/[Φ]IΛ(three-bar Σ)Λ(three-bar Σ)ΛΛ(three-bar Σ) (sic), archer (Arsakes I) seated right on throne, holding bow; monogram below bow. Sellwood 52.13; cf. Shore 281. EF, obverse softly struck.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection. Ex Album FPL 225 (June 2007), no. 56238.