196, Lot: 68. Estimate $300. Sold for $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Arsakes II. 211-185 BC. AR Drachm (16mm, 4.11 g, 12h). Rhagai-Asakia mint(?). Struck circa 211-209 BC. Head left, wearing bashlyk / Archer (Arsakes I) seated right on throne, holding bow; below bow, eagle standing facing, head left. Assar, Genealogy, fig. 6; A&S Type 6, 6/32 (same obv. die); Sellwood 6.1; Shore 4. Good VF, toned. Rare.

The superb condition of the great majority of S6 drachms of Arsakes II in the early Parthian hoard (A&S) implies that they were minted and almost immediately interred at around the time of Antiochos III's eastern expedition to Parthia and Baktria in 209 BC. (See Dr. Assar’s comments for Triton VII, lot 393.)