Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 753. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Vologases II. Circa AD 77-80. AR Drachm (3.64 g, 12h). Ekbatana mint. Diademed bust left, wearing short beard, earring, and tiara decorated with "hooks"; all within pelleted border / (quadrate O)ΛIIΛI-Λ(...)/(quadrate O)ΛIIΛI-ΛH ΛI IΛN(quadrate O)[(quadrate O)] (...)ΛIIHT/ΛXΛ(M inverted)(quadrate O)V/EΠI+ΛNOV(three-bar Σ)/+IΛHX(quadrate O)I(three-bar Σ)V (sic), archer (Arsakes I) seated right on throne, holding bow; monogram below bow. Sellwood 72.10; Shore -; PDC 31713 (this coin). VF, die shift on obverse. Extremely rare.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection. Ex Peus 384 (2 November 2005), lot 399; Triton I (2 December 1997), lot 598.