Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 528. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Mithradates I. 165-132 BC. AR Drachm (3.94 g, 12h). Hekatompylos mint. Diademed bust left, wearing long beard, within bead-and-reel border / BAΣIΛEΩΣ MEΓAΛOY APΣ AKOY, archer (Arsakes I) seated right on omphalos, holding bow. Assar, Genealogy -; Sellwood 11.1; Shore 24-25; PDC 31680 (this coin). VF, darkly toned. Rare.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection. Ex Peus 384 (2 November 2005), lot 366; Lanz 62 (26 November 1992), lot 433; Classical Numismatic Review XVII.2 (April-June 1992), no. 69.