Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 691. Estimate $150.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Phraates IV. Circa 38-2 BC. AR Drachm (3.24 g, 12h). Ekbatana mint. Diademed and draped bust left, wart on forehead, wearing pointed beard and segmented necklet; star in crescent to left; to right, eagle left, holding wreath; all within pelleted border / BA(three-bar Σ)IΛE[Ω(three-bar Σ)]/BΛ(three-bar Σ)IΛ(three-bar Σ)ΠN AP (three-bar Σ)AK(quadrate O)Y EYEPΓET(quadrate O)Y/ΔIKAI(quadrate O)Y EΠIΦAN(quadrate O)Y(three-bar Σ)/[ΦI]Λ(three-bar Σ)ΛΛHNO(three-bar Σ) (sic), archer (Arsakes I) seated right on throne, holding bow; monogram below bow. Sellwood 54.7; Shore 297. EF, toned, some porosity.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection. Ex Davis FPL 27 (Summer 1999), no. 86.