397, Lot: 259. Estimate $75. Sold for $950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Parthamaspates. Circa AD 116-117. AR Drachm (21mm, 3.19 g, 12h). Uncertain mint mint. Diademed bust left, wearing long, pointed, beard / Archer (Arsakes I) seated right on throne, holding bow; triple pellets below leg. Sellwood 83.1 (Unknown king); Sunrise –; Shore 419 (Vologases III). VF, areas of light toning, cleaning marks in field. Rare.

From the Nisa Collection.

For the attribution of this drachm to Parthamaspates, see Sunrise, p. 152-153