Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 702. Estimate $150.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Phraatakes. Circa 2 BC-AD 4. AR Tetradrachm (14.18 g, 12h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Diademed and draped bust left, wart on forehead, wearing pointed beard and spiral torque; Nikai flying right before, and left behind; all within pelleted border / [B]Λ(three-bar Σ)IΛEΩ[(three-bar Σ)]/BΛ(three-bar Σ)IΛEΩN ΛI(three-bar Σ)AK(quadrate O)Y/(three-bar Σ)V(three-bar Σ)ΓΓ(three-bar Σ)TY ΔIKΛI(quadrate O)Y [E]ΠIΦAN(quadrate O)V(three-bar Σ)/[ΦI]Λ(three-bar Σ)ΛΛN(quadrate O)(three-bar Σ) (sic), archer (Arsakes I) seated right on throne, holding bow; IT (year) below bow. Sellwood 57.10-12 var. (year); Shore -; PDC 39706 (this coin). VF, toned, light graffiti on obverse.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection. Ex Dr. Robert Gonnella Collection (Peus 388, 1 November 2006), lot 534; Berk BBS 88 (28 November 1995), lot 250.