Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 741. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $325. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Vonones II. Circa AD 51. AR Drachm (3.75 g, 12h). Ekbatana mint. Diademed facing bust, wearing short beard and tiara, wart on forehead, wearing tiara; six-rayed star to each side / (quadrate O)Λ(three-bar Σ)IΛEΛ(three-bar Σ)/(quadrate O)Λ(three-bar Σ)IΛ(three-bar Σ)ΛN ΛI IΛN [E]VEPΓET[(quadrate O)V] ΔIXΛI(quadrate O)V EΠI+ΛN(quadrate O)V(three-bar Σ)/ΦIΛ(E retrograde)ΛΛHX(quadrate O)(three-bar Σ)] (sic), archer (Arsakes I) seated right on throne, holding bow; monogram below bow. Sellwood 67.1; Shore 368. Good VF, toned.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection.

Vonones reigned for only a few short months. Little is known of this king, but he probably was from the same Arsakid family as Vologases I and Vardanes II.