Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1089. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $420. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Mithradates I. Circa 170-132 BC. Æ Chalkous (2.68 g, 12h). Hekatompylos mint. mint. Bust left wearing bashlyk / ARSAKOU (retrograde), horse advancing right, left foreleg raised. Sellwood 8.2; B. Simonetta, "Brevi note di numismatica Partica: Chalkoi di Arsaces II," SM 144 (November 1986), p. 88, fig. 1; Shore 22; MACW -; Le Rider, Suse pl. LXIX, 24. Good VF, red-brown patina with traces of black, reverse slightly double struck. Rare. ($500)