Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 523. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Phriapatios to Mithradates I. Circa 185-132 BC. AR Drachm (3.54 g, 1h). Ekbatana mint. Head left, wearing bashlyk and earring, within pelleted border / BAΣIΛEΩΣ MEΓAΛOY APΣ AKOY, archer (Arsakes I) seated right on omphalos, holding bow. Assar, Genealogy I -; Sellwood 10.10 (Mithradates I); cf. Shore 16 (same obv. die); PDC 39499 (this coin). EF, toned, obverse slightly off-center.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection. Ex Dr. Robert Gonnella Collection (Peus 388, 1 November 2006), lot 291.