Sale: Triton VII, Lot: 397. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Monday, 12 January 2004.  Sold For $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Mithradates I. Circa 171-132 BC. AR Drachm (4.01 gm). Hekatompylos mint. Bust left wearing bashlik / ARSAKOU, Arsakes I seated right on omphalos, holding bow. Sellwood 8.1; Shore 5; BMC Parthia pg. 1, 1 (Arsakes I); MACW 463. Toned, good VF, minor porosity. Rare. ($300)

Ex Khalili Collection (Leu 57, 25 May 1993), lot 148.

See note preceeding lot 396 for the probable future reattribution of this type to Artabanos, grandson of Arsakes I.