Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 699. Estimate $150.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $240. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Phraatakes. Circa 2 BC-AD 4. AR Drachm (3.68 g, 12h). Mithradatkart mint. Diademed and draped bust left, wart on forehead, wearing pointed beard and spiral torque; star in crescent to left; to right, Nike left, holding wreath; all within pelleted border / VΛNVIΛV/VΛV-VΛV -VΛVΛV (...)ΛVΛVΛVΛV/HV-VΛVΛ ΛVΩH/HΛVΛVΛ (sic), archer (Arsakes I) seated right on throne, holding bow; monogram below bow. Sellwood 56.7; Shore 318 (this coin). EF, toned, flat on high points of obverse.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection. Ex Fred B. Shore Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 36, 5 December 1995), lot 318.