Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 766. Estimate $150.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Artabanos IV. Circa AD 80-90. AR Drachm (3.77 g, 12h). Ekbatana mint. Diademed bust left, wearing long beard, earring, and spiral torque; all within pelleted border / (quadrate O)ΛIIΛI-Λ(three-bar Σ)/(quadrate O)ΛIIΛI-ΛN ΛI- IΛN(quadrate O) (...)/ΔIXΛI(quadrate O)V/IΠI+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 74.6 (Artabanos III); Shore 404. Good VF, lightly toned.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection.

Little else is known about Artabanos IV, who seized control of a portion of the Parthian kingdom other than the numismatic evidence of his coinage, struck at his capital of Ekbatana.