Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 513. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Phriapatios. 185-170 BC. AR Drachm (3.85 g, 12h). Nisa mint. Head left, wearing bashlyk and earring, within pelleted border / AP ΣAKOY BAΣIΛEΩΣ, archer (Arsakes I) seated right on omphalos, holding bow; N in exergue. Assar, Genealogy I, fig. 3/14; Sellwood 9.2 (Mithradates I); Shore 9 (Mithradates I); PDC 31678 and 28967 (this coin). VF, toned, a few deposits. Very rare.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection. Ex Peus 384 (2 November 2005), lot 364; Peus 382 (26 April 2005), lot 245.