452, Lot: 529. Estimate $150. Sold for $160. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Phraates III. Circa 70/69-58/7 BC. AR Drachm (20mm, 4.16 g, 1h). Mithradatkart mint. Struck circa 68-62 BC. Diademed bust left / Archer (Arsakes I) seated right on throne, holding bow; monogram below bow. Sellwood 36.12 (Darius?); Sunrise 322-3; Shore 158; PDC 20814 (same obv. die). Obverse struck with worn die. Good VF.

Ex Todd A. Ballen Collection (Triton XIII, 5 January 2010), lot 614; Ponterio 142 (27 April 2007), lot 1676.