Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 731. Estimate $150.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Vardanes I. Circa AD 40-45. AR Drachm (3.99 g, 12h). Mithradatkart mint. Diademed bust left, wearing short beard [and spiral torque]; star in crescent to left; all within pelleted border / (...)/(...) (...) ΛVΛVΛVΛ/VΛVΛVΛV VΛVΛ/Λ/Λ\ (sic), archer (Arsakes I) seated right on throne, holding bow; monogram below bow. Sellwood 64.34; Shore 355 (this coin). EF, toned.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection. Ex Ponterio 142 (27 April 2007), lot 1684; Fred Shore Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 36, 5 December 1995), lot 355.