Sale: Triton VII, Lot: 478. Estimate $150.  Closing Date: Monday, 12 January 2004.  Sold For $240. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Artabanos III. 10-38 AD. Billon Drachm (2.49 gm). Mithradatkart mint. Diademed bust left, long square-cut beard, nearly straight hair, earring visible; star in crescent before / Degraded legend, Arsakes I seated right on throne, holding bow; star behind, monogram below bow. Sellwood 63.12 var. (Artabanos II; no star on reverse); Shore 347 var. (Artabanos II; same); BMC Parthia pg. 167, 50 var. (Gotarzes; same); MACW 624 var. (Artabanos II; same). EF, minor copper oxide deposit on obverse. Variety unpublished in the major references. ($150)

Ex Dr. Mesrop Abgarians Collection (Malter 51, 2 June 1993), lot 319.