Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 587. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. 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 MEΓ AΛOV ΛPΣΛKOV ΘEOΠATPOV/NIKATOPOΣ, Lot includes the following rulers: a) Sinatrukes. Æ Tetrachalkon. (2.30 g). Rhagai mint. BAΣIΛEΩΣ MEΓ AΛOV ΛPΣΛKOV ΘEOΠATPOV/NIKATOPOΣ, Pegasos advancing right. Sellwood 33.10 (Gotarzes I); Shore - // b) Mithradates III. Æ Tetrachalkon (3.68 g). Ekbatana mint. Six-rayed star on tiara; all within pelleted border. Sellwood 31.11 (Orodes I); Shore 127; PDC 39926 (this coin) / BAΣIΛEΩΣ/MEΓAΛOV APΣ AKOV AVTOKPATOPOΣ/ΦIΛOΠATOPOΣ EΠIΦANOVΣ/ΦIΛEΛΛHNOΣ , horse galloping right. // c) Orodes I. Æ Dichalkon (3.40 g). Rhagai mint. Anchor symbol to right of bust / BAΣIΛEΩΣ MEΓAΛOV/APΣAKOV EVEPΓETOV EΠIΦANOVΣ/ΦIΛEΛΛHNOΣ , horse galloping right. Sellwood 34.9 (Sinatrukes); Shore -. Coins near VF-VF, brown and red-brown patina, first coin with traces of red encrustation. Rare. LOT SOLD AS IS, NO RETURNS. Three (3) coins in lot.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection. Second coin ex Dr. Robert Gonnella Collection (Peus 388, 1 November 2006), lot 349 (part of).