Sale: Triton VI, Lot: 508. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 13 January 2003.  Sold For $5500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Orodes I. 90-77 BC. AR Tetradrachm (15.73 gm). Seleukeia mint. Bust left, wearing a tiara ornamented with six-point star / BASILEWS MEGALOU AR-SAKOU [AU]TOKRATOROS FILOPATORO[S] [E]PIFANOUS FILELLHNOS, archer seated right on throne, holding bow; A below bow. Shore 120 (this coin); Sellwood 31.2. Attractively toned, good VF, a few faint scratches before bust. Extremely rare. ($3000) 

Ex Fred Shore Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 36, 5-6 December 1995), lot 120.