Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 531. Estimate $150.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Mithradates I. 165-132 BC. Æ Chalkoi. Hekatompylos mint. All coins: diademed bust left, wearing long beard, within bead-and-reel or wreath border / BAΣIΛEΩΣ MEΓAΛOY APΣAKOY, horse advancing right, left foreleg raised. Lot includes the following denominations: 1) Æ Dichalkon (3.77 g) with bead-and-reel border // 2) Æ Dichalkon (2.54 g) with bead-and-reel border // 3) Æ Tetrachalkon (4.62 g) with bead-and-reel border. Cf. Sellwood 11.6; cf. Shore 28 (both refs. for type). Coins Fine-near VF, brown and dark green patina. LOT SOLD AS IS, NO RETURNS. Three (3) coins in lot.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection. Coins 2 and 3 are ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 155 (3 January 2007), lot 431 (part of).