400, Lot: 360. Estimate $200. Sold for $180. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Phraates I to Mithradates I. Circa 185-132 BC. AR Drachm (20mm, 3.57 g, 12h). Uncertain mint. Struck 165-148 BC. Head left, wearing bashlyk / Archer (Arsakes I) seated right on omphalos, holding bow; [Θ to outer left], monogram to outer right, MENEΔ in exergue. Sellwood 10.16 (Mithradates I); Sellwood, Deux p. 155 illustration (same obv.die); Sunrise –; Shore –; PDC 23545 = Sellwood Collection (Baldwin’s 96), lot 3136 (same obv. die as illustration). VF, toned, porous, a few deposits. One of three known.

From the Nisa Collection.