Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 841. Estimate $150.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $110. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PERSIS. Oxathres (Vahšir). Late 1st century BC. AR Drachm (3.90 g, 11h). Bearded bust left, wearing diadem with three ties and torque with four segments / “whwh[sh]tr myk nrh ryw myk” (partially blundered) in Aramaic script, Oxathres standing right, holding scepter and sacrificing before altar to right. Cf. Klose & Müseler 4/20; Tyler-Smith, Parcel, type 2; Alram 582 var. (legend); De Morgan pl. XXXI, 30 var. (same); PDC 26822 (this coin). EF, striking flaw on reverse.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection. Ex Malter 81 (29 September 2002), lot 205.