From the John Quincy Adams Collection

Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 776. Estimate $100.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Vologases III. Circa AD 105-147. AR Drachm (3.85 g, 1h). 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-Λ[N] I ΛN/IVIIΓI[T(quadrate O)V] ΔIXΛI(quadrate O)V [I]ΠIΦΛN(quadrate O)[V(three-bar Σ)]/[ΦIΛI]ΛΛH[X(quadrate O)(three-bar Σ)] (sic), archer (Arsakes I) seated right on throne, holding bow; monogram below bow. Sellwood 78.10; Shore 419. VF, toned.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection. Ex John Quincy Adams/Massachusetts Historical Society Collection (Stack’s, 5 March 1971), lot 294 (part of).