Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 687. Estimate $150.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $140. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Phraates IV. Circa 38-2 BC. AR Drachm (3.83 g, 1h). Court at Susa 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 / Π(three-bar Σ)ΛΞIΛΞ[...]/(three-bar Σ)Λ(three-bar Σ)IΛE ΛIИИIΛΛ [...]V(E retrograde)NΞT[...]/(horizontal E)ΛIIVI (three-bar Σ)ΠIXΛИIV(archaic Z)/ΦIΛEΛΛИИI (sic), archer (Arsakes I) seated right on throne, holding bow; monogram below bow. Sellwood 52.31; Shore -; PDC 39687 (this coin). VF/EF, toned.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection. Ex Dr. Robert Gonnella Collection (Peus 388, 1 November 2006), lot 509; Peus 336 (28 April 1993), lot 142.