Sale: CNG 66, Lot: 787. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 19 May 2004.  Sold For $250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Mithradates IV. 58/7 - 54/3 BC. AR Drachm (4.11 gm). Ekbatana mint. Diademed bust left / Arsakes I seated right on throne, holding bow; monogram below bow. Sellwood 40.2; cf. Shore 189; BMC Parthia pg. 61, 1; MACW 556 (all attributed as Mithradates III). Toned EF. Rare. ($200)

From the Bellaria Collection. Ex Peus 326 (1-3 November 1989), lot 376.

See Triton VII, lot 430, for the attribution of a new Parthian king named Mithradates, which affects the ordinal numbering of all subseqent kings named Mithradates.