Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 797. Estimate $150.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $90. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Vologases IV. Circa AD 147-191. AR Drachm (3.75 g, 12h). Ekbatana mint. Diademed bust left, wearing long beard, earring, and tiara with ear flap and spiral torque, and decorated with “hooks”; all within pelleted border / “wlg]cy m[lk]” in Parthian/BΛIIΛI- I – –(quadrate O)V/XΓV VΛИV XΛ(quadrate O)ΛV(quadrate O)/[T]XΛIΛ(quadrate O) (sic), archer (Arsakes I) seated right on throne, holding bow; monogram below bow, Λ below throne. Sellwood 84.132; cf. Shore 427-432. EF, lightly toned.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection.