Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 743. Estimate $150.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Vologases I. Circa AD 51-78. AR Drachm (3.83 g, 12h). Ekbatana mint. Diademed bust left, wearing long beard, earring, and spiral torque; all within pelleted border / (quadrate O)Λ(three-bar Σ)IEΛH/(quadrate O)Λ(three-bar Σ)IEΛH HI IΛN(quadrate O)(quadrate O) VIΛV(quadrate O)I/ΛIVΛ(quadrate O)I (quadrate O)ΠIXΛN(quadrate O)V(three-bar Σ)/(...)IΛIΛΛHX(quadrate O)(three-bar Σ)] (sic), archer (Arsakes I) seated right on throne, holding bow; monogram below bow. Sellwood 70.14; Shore 374; PDC 39769 (this coin). EF, toned, slight die shift on obverse.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection. Ex Dr. Robert Gonnella Collection (Peus 388, 1 November 2006), lot 615; Peus 361(3 November 1999), lot 311.