Sale: CNG 66, Lot: 814. Estimate $150.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 19 May 2004.  Sold For $160. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Mithradates V. 140 AD. AR Drachm (3.80 gm). Ekbatana mint. Diademed bust left, long pointed beard, earring visible, hair in three waves; diadem has single band, double loop, and two ends / Arsakes I seated right on throne, holding bow; monogram below bow. Sellwood 82.1; Shore 425; BMC Parthia pg. 219, 25; MACW 682 (all attributed as Mithradates IV). Toned, good VF, light encrustation. ($150)

From the Bellaria Collection. Ex Peus 326 (1-3 November 1989), lot 404.

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