Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 583. Estimate $600.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Mithradates II. 121-91 BC. Æ Chalkoi. All coins: Diademed and draped bust left, wearing tiara with ear flap, long beard, and torque ending in pellet; all within pelleted border / BAΣIΛEΩΣ BAΣIΛEΩN MEΓΛΛOV APΣAKOV/EΠIΦANOVΣ. Lot includes the following denominations and reverse types: a) Æ Tetrachalkon. (3.24 g). Rhagai mint. Pegasos advancing right. Sellwood 28.8; cf. Shore 108 // b) Second example. (3.22 g) // c) Similar example (3.42 g). Ekbatana mint. PDC 39928 (this coin) // d) Æ Dichalkon. (1.73 g). Ekbatana mint. Nike advancing right, holding palm and wreath. Sellwood 28.9; cf. Shore 109; PDC 39930 (this coin) // e) Second example. (2.21 g). PDC 39929 (this coin) // f) Similar example (1.77 g). Rhagai mint. Sellwood 28.12; Shore - // g) Same denomination (2.43 g), but Pegasos advancing right. Sellwood 28.17; Shore -; PDC 39927 (this coin) // h) Æ Chalkous. (1.34 g). Ekbatana mint. Club. Sellwood 28.18; Shore -. Coins near Fine-VF, dark green and brown patina, some typical roughness and light cleaning marks. LOT SOLD AS IS, NO RETURNS. Eight (8) coins in lot.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection. First coin ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 155 (3 January 2007), lot 435 (part of); third, fourth, fifth, and seventh coins ex Dr. Robert Gonnella Collection (Peus 388, 1 November 2006), lot 349 (part of).