355, Lot: 235. Estimate $300. Sold for $340. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Phraates II. 132-126 BC. AR Drachm (20mm, 3.97 g, 12h). Apameia mint. Diademed bust left, wearing short beard; ΛΠΛ downwards to right; all within pelleted border / Archer (Arsakes I) seated right on omphalos, holding bow. Sellwood 16.12 var. (rev. legend); cf. Shore 52 (for type); PDC 4719 and 33961 (this coin); Sunrise –. Good VF, toned, obverse slightly double struck.

Ex Todd A. Ballen Collection (Triton XIII, 5 January 2010), lot 541; Peus 386 (26 April 2006), lot 388; Peus 363, (26 April 2000), lot 5110.