Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 799. Estimate $100.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $120. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Osroes II. Circa AD 190. AR Drachm (3.81 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 / “hwcrw mlk” in Parthian/IΛIΛIIΛI- VV/ΛVΓV(quadrate O) XΛIΛ[I] (sic), archer (Arsakes I) seated right on throne, holding bow; monogram below bow, Λ below feet. Sellwood 85.1; Shore 437. Good VF, toned.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection.

Little else is known about Osroes II other than the numismatic evidence of his coinage.