CNG 105, Lot: 469. Estimate $300. Sold for $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Artabanos I (Arsakes II). 211-185 BC. AR Drachm (21mm, 3.85 g, 12h). Hekatompylos mint. Head left, wearing bashlyk / Archer (Arsakes I) seated right on omphalos, holding bow. Sellwood 7.1 (Mithradates I); Sunrise 246-7; Shore 5 corr. (Mithradates I; Sellwood 7.1 not 8.1). VF, some porosity. Rare.

From the Nisa Collection.