Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 730. Estimate $100.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $60. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Vardanes I. Circa AD 40-45. AR Drachm (3.86 g, 12h). Nisa mint. Diademed bust left, wearing short beard [and spiral torque]; star in crescent to left; all within pelleted border / (...)/(...) (...) ΛIΛVIΛ/ΛOIΛOIΛ (...)ΛVΛI/ (...)N(quadrate O)(three-bar Σ) (sic), archer (Arsakes I) seated right on throne, holding bow; monogram below bow. Sellwood 64.32; Shore -; PDC 39736 (this coin). VF, toned.

From the Todd A. Ballen Collection. Ex Dr. Robert Gonnella Collection (Peus 388, 1 November 2006), lot 572; Berk BBS 85 (9 March 1995), lot 272.