Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 703. Estimate $150.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $325. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Phraatakes. Circa 2 BC-AD 4. AR Drachm (4.03 g, 12h). Ekbatana mint. Diademed and draped bust left, wart on forehead, wearing pointed beard and spiral torque; Nikai flying right before, and left behind, crowning him; all within pelleted border / (quadrate O)A(three-bar Σ)I[Λ(three-bar Σ)Ω(three-bar Σ)]/(three-bar Σ)A(three-bar Σ)IΛ(three-bar Σ)Ω[N] AP (three-bar Σ)AK(quadrate O)Y/EYEPΓET(quadrate O)Y/ΔIKAI(quadrate O)Y [E]ΠIΦAN(quadrate O)Y(three-bar Σ)/[Φ]IΛEΛΛHN(quadrate O)[(three-bar Σ)] (sic), archer (Arsakes I) seated right on throne, holding bow; monogram below bow. Sellwood 57.13; Shore 322; PDC 21594 (this coin). EF, toned.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection. Ex Gorny & Mosch 142 (10 October 2005), lot 1701; Bellaria Collection (Triton VII, 12 January 2004), lot 469; Schweizerischer Bankverein 33 (20 September 1993), lot 415.