133, Lot: 105. Estimate $75. Sold for $127. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Mithradates III. 87-80/79 BC. AR Drachm (21mm ,4.19 g). Rhagae mint. Diademed bust left, wearing tiara / Arsakes I seated right on throne, holding bow. Sellwood 31.6 (Orodes I); Shore 123 (Orodes I). Good VF.

Mithradates III, whose enthronement is recorded in a Babylonian cuneiform tablet, was a younger son of Mithradates II, hence the epithet FILOPATWR ìLoving His Fatherî on his S31 coinage (an attribution secured by their sequence, w