CNG 105, Lot: 472. Estimate $300. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Phriapatios to Mithradates I. Circa 185-132 BC. AR Obol (14mm, 0.66 g, 12h). Hekatompylos mint. Head left, wearing bashlyk / Archer (Arsakes I) seated right on omphalos, holding bow. Sellwood 9.7 var. (Mithradates I; legend not retrograde); Sunrise 253 (same dies); Shore 20 var. (Mithradates I; same). VF, porous. Overstruck on an obol of Eukratides I of Baktria. Very rare.

From the Nisa Collection.