336, Lot: 158. Estimate $100. Sold for $120. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Mithradates V. Circa AD 140. AR Drachm (18mm, 3.77 g, 12h). Ekbatana mint. Diademed bust left / Archer (Arsakes I) seated right on throne, holding bow; monogram below bow, name in Aramaic in first line of legend. Sellwood (Mithradates IV) 82.1; Shore 425 (Mithradates IV). Good VF, toned.

Ex Elsen 35 (2 July 1994), lot 182.

Since the offering of the Bellaria Collection in Triton IX, CNG's Parthian attributions have been made in accordance with the research of G.R.F. Assar, who had been working with the late Dr. Sellwood on an update to the standard reference for the coinage.