78, Lot: 42. Estimate $75. Sold for $73. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Artabanos I. 126-122 BC. AR Drachm (18mm, 4.44 gm). Traveling Court mint (?) Diademed bust left / Archer holding bow seated right on omphalos. Cf. Sellwood 20.1; Shore 65. Fine for type, crude strike.

"Later coins of Artabanos I became crude in style and could be emergency issues minted during the war with the Saka in which Artabanos was killed." Shore's note at coin 65 applies to this specimen as well.