Sale: Triton VII, Lot: 388. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 12 January 2004.  Sold For $4600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Arsakes I. 238-211 BC. AR Drachm (4.20 gm). Mithradatkart-Nisa(?) mint. Head left wearing bashlik / [A]RSAK[OU], Arsakes seated left on backless throne, holding bow; Aramaic "krny"(?) left, MT monogram below throne. Sellwood 3.1; A&S Type 3, 3/8 (same dies); Shore 2 (this coin); Alram 390; MACW 451 (same obverse die). VF, weak reverse strike. Rare. ($2000)

Ex Fred B. Shore Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 36, 5-6 December 1995), lot 2.