Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 738. Estimate $100.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Gotarzes II. Circa AD 40-51. AR Drachm (3.35 g, 12h). Mithradatkart mint. Diademed bust left, wearing long beard, earring, 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 65.36; Shore 365; PDC 39758 (this coin). Good VF, light porosity.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection. Ex Dr. Robert Gonnella Collection (Peus 388, 1 November 2006), lot 600; Malloy 58 (6 October 2000), lot 151.