Sale: CNG 66, Lot: 777. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 19 May 2004.  Sold For $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Orodes I. March/April 80 - March/April 75 BC. AR Drachm (3.88 gm). Rhagae mint. Struck circa 77-75 BC. Diademed bust left, wearing tiara; anchor behind / Arsakes I seated right on throne, holding bow. Sellwood 34.4 (Sinatrukes); Shore 146 (Sinatrukes); BMC Parthia pg. 54, 90 var. (Phraates III?; tiara style); MACW 544 var. (Phraates III; same). Toned, good VF, reverse double-struck. ($300)

From the Bellaria Collection. Ex Peus 326 (1-3 November 1989), lot 372.

See Triton VII, lot 431, for the reattribution of Sellwood Type 34 drachms from Sinatrukes to Orodes I.