Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 718. Estimate $150.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $120. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Artabanos III. Circa AD 10-38. AR Drachm (3.81 g, 12h). Mithradatkart mint. Diademed bust left, wearing long beard and spiral torque; star within crescent to right; all within pelleted border / VΛVΛVΛ(...)/VΛVΛVΛVΛ VVΛVΛV ΛVΛVΛVΛ ΛVΛV/ΛVΛV (sic), archer (Arsakes I) seated right on throne, holding bow; monogram below bow. Sellwood 63.12 (Artabanos II); Shore 347-348. VF, toned, reverse double struck. Good metal. Rare.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group E-155 (3 January 2007), lot 119; Giessener Münzhandlung 46 (30 October 1989), lot 415.