Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 732. Estimate $100.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $180. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Vardanes I and Vologases I. Circa AD 40-45 and Circa AD 147-191. Æ Drachms and Chalkoi. All coins: Diademed and draped bust left, wearing torque; all within pelleted border / Lot includes the following rulers, denominations, mints, and reverse types: a) and b) Vardanes I. Æ Drachm (3.35 g). Aria mint. Blundered legend, archer (Arsakes I) seated right on throne, holding bow; monogram below bow. Sellwood 64.37; Shore -; PDC 40190 (coin b; this coin) (2) // c) Æ Chalkous (0.90 g). Mithradatkart mint. Monogram. Cf. Sellwood 64 (for obv. type); Shore - // d) Gotarzes II Æ Drachm (2.98 g). Mithradatkart mint. Star in crescent to left of bust / Blundered legend, archer (Arsakes I) seated right on throne, holding bow; monogram below bow. Sellwood 65.36; Shore -; PDC 40188 (this coin) // e) Vologases I. Æ Chalkous (1.31 g). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Dated 385 SE (AD 73/4). ЄΠT to left of bust / Head of Tyche right; monogram to right. Sellwood 70.17 var. (date); Shore -. Coins Fine-VF, brown and dark green patina. LOT SOLD AS IS. NO RETURNS. Five (5) coins in lot.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection. Coins b and d ex Dr. Robert Gonnella Collection (Peus 388, 1 November 2006), lot 570 (part of).