357, Lot: 182. Estimate $200. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Phraates II. 132-126 BC. AR Drachm (21mm, 3.83 g, 12h). Uncertain (Apamea-Rhagiane?) mint. Struck circa 128-127 BC. Diademed bust left; ΛΠΛ downward to right / BAΣIΛ EΩΣ/MEΓ AΛOY downward to right, APΣAKOV/ΘΕΟΠATOPOΣ (sic) downward to left, archer (Arsakes I) seated right on omphalos, holding bow; lines dividing legends. Sellwood 16.12; Shore 52; Sunrise –. VF, toned, minor roughness.

Ex David Sellwood Collection.