CNG 103, Lot: 432. Estimate $500. Sold for $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Arsakes I. 247-211 BC. AR Drachm (17mm, 4.02 g, 12h). Nisa(?) mint. Head left, wearing bashlyk / Archer (Arsakes I) seated left on backless throne, holding bow; krny in Aramaic to left. Sellwood 3.2; A&S Type 3, 3 (same dies); Sunrise 238 var. (monogram below throne); Shore –. Good Fine, some porosity on obverse, struck with worn dies. Very rare variety without monogram.

Ex Atrek 1965 Hoard (IGCH 1798).