Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 547. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $460. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Artabanos I. 126-122 BC. AR Drachm (3.99 g, 12h). Ekbatana mint. Diademed and draped bust left, wearing long beard, earring, and torque; monogram to right; all within pelleted border / [BAΣI ΛEΩΣ]/MEΓ AΛO[Y] down right field, AP ΣAKOY/ΦIΛΛΔEΛ[ΦOY] (sic) down left, archer (Arsakes I) seated right on omphalos, holding bow. Sellwood 20.3; Shore 61 (same obv. die); PDC 39527 (this coin). EF, toned, minor roughness.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection. Ex Dr. Robert Gonnella Collection (Peus 388, 1 November 2006), lot 321; Peus 326 (1 November 1989), lot 359.