Sale: CNG 66, Lot: 762. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 19 May 2004.  Sold For $340. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Mithradates I. Circa 171-132 BC. AR Drachm (4.23 gm). Hekatompylos mint. Bust left wearing bashlik / Arsakes I seated right on omphalos, holding bow. Sellwood 9.1; Shore 7; BMC Parthia pg. 2, 3 (Arsakes II); MACW 464. Good VF, obverse flatly struck. ($200)

From the Bellaria Collection. Ex Giessener Münzhandlung 48 (2 April 1990), lot 621.

See note preceeding lot 396 in Triton VII for the probable future reattribution of this type to Phriapatios.