Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 593. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Mithradates III. Circa 87-79 BC. AR Drachm (4.14 g, 12h). Rhagai mint. Diademed and draped bust left, wearing tiara with ear flap, long beard, and torque ending in pellet; eight-rayed star on tiara; all within pelleted border / BAΣIΛEΩΣ/MEΓAΛOV APΣ AKOV AVTOKPATOPOΣ/ΦIΛOΠATOPOΣ EΠIΦANOVΣ/ΦIΛEΛΛHNOΣ, archer (Arsakes I) seated right on throne, holding bow. Sellwood 31.6 (Orodes I); Shore 123-124. EF.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection.