Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 838. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PERSIS. Darios (Darev) II. Mid 1st century BC. AR Drachm (4.04 g, 1h). Bearded bust right, wearing diadem with three rows of pellets; crescent above / “d’ryw mlk”brh wtprdt mlk’” in Aramaic script, Darios standing left, holding scepter and sacrificing before altar to left. Cf. Klose & Müseler 4/4; Tyler-Smith, Parcel, type 1c; Alram 564; De Morgan pl. XXX, 2; PDC 32375 (this coin). EF, darkly toned.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection. Ex Triton IX (10 January 2006), lot 1107.