Triton XVI, Lot: 631. Estimate $750. Sold for $580. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Mithradates II. 121-91 BC. AR Drachm (24mm, 4.27 g, 12h). Ekbatana mint. Struck circa 109-96/5 BC. Diademed and draped bust left, wearing long beard, earring, and torque ending in sea-horse; all within pelleted border / BAΣIΛEΩΣ BAΣIΛEΩN MEΓΛΛOV APΣAKOY/EΠI+ANOVΣ, archer (Arsakes I) seated right on omphalos, holding bow in outstretched right hand. Sellwood 27.2; Shore 86-7; PDC 42901 (this coin); Sunrise 294. Superb EF, lightly toned.

Ex Todd A. Ballen Collection (Triton XIII, 4 January 2010), lot 567; Ex Classical Numismatic Group 75 (23 May 2007), lot 584..