334, Lot: 195. Estimate $100. Sold for $70. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Mithradates III. Circa 87-79 BC. AR Drachm (22mm, 4.16 g, 12h). Rhagai mint. Diademed bust left, wearing tiara decorated with star / Archer (Arsakes I) seated right on throne, holding bow. Sellwood 31.6 (Orodes I); Shore 123-4 (Orodes I). VF.

Since the offering of the Bellaria Collection in Triton IX, CNG's Parthian attributions have been made in accordance with the research of G.R.F. Assar, who had been working with the late Dr. Sellwood on an update to the standard reference for the coinage.