CNG 103, Lot: 448. Estimate $1000. Sold for $600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Mithradates II. 121-91 BC. AR Drachm (19mm, 4.00 g, 12h). Margiane mint. Diademed bust left; MP down right / Archer (Arsakes I) seated right on throne, holding bow and arrow. Sellwood 23.3 corr. (mint); Loginov & Nikitin, Parthian, 6 = BM Inv. 1920.6.11.314; Sunrise –; Shore –; cf. PDC 8990; David Sellwood Collection (New York Sale XXXIV), lot 354. VF, toned, minor areas of flat strike at periphery. Extremely rare and better than the Sellwood specimen.