Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1092. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Orodes I. 80-75 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.30 g, 12h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Diademed bust left; torque ends in pellet / BASILEWS MEGALOU ARSAKOS [Q]EOPATOROS EUERGETOU EPIFANOUS FILELLHNOUS, Arsakes I seated right on throne, holding bow; monogram above bow. Cf. Sellwood 30.2; Shore 129 (this coin); MACW 522 var. (HAP monogram above and below bow); cf. Münzen und Medaillen 95 (4 October 2004), lot 98. Good VF, toned. Rare. ($3000)

Ex Leu 83 (6-7 May 2002), lot 416; Fred Shore Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 36 (5-6 December 1995), lot 129.