400, Lot: 380. Estimate $100. Sold for $340. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Mithradates II. 121-91 BC. AR Drachm (17mm, 1.90 g, 2h). Contemporary imitation. Uncertain mint, probably in the east. Diademed and draped bust left / Archer (Arsakes I) seated right on omphalos, holding bow. Cf. Sellwood Type 26–27 (for prototype); cf. Nikitin, Parthian, pl. I, 4; cf. Zeno 84924; cf. CNG E-382, lot 185. VF, small hairline flan crack. Rare and interesting.

From the Nisa Collection.