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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pellinore, post: 5251176, member: 74834&quot;]Yesterday for at least one hour I thought I had discovered an unlisted drachm of Parthia in today&#039;s CNG auction (I was plotting to bid hundreds!). Probably a slightly barbaric type, but still, with picture of the sitting archer left instead of right. And that in a mid-first century BC drachm. </p><p><br /></p><p>Certainly, the archer looks a bit drunk and holding a mug of frothy beer, leaning his feet on a stool - thus barbaric - but still. The picture was not mirrored, for you can read the word DIKAIOU quite clearly just over the archer. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1218826[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>So I went to do some research. In Sellwood: no mention of archers to the left. If you google &quot;archer seated left&quot; you find many web pages, but never a mid-first century Parthian drachm where the archer really is seated to the left. But the CNG description also mentions the A mark of Ecbatana (&#039;Agbatana&#039; being one of its other name forms), and that I could not find on the coin, unless the A was inverted. </p><p><br /></p><p>Inverted! So I inverted the reverse, and lo! there was the archer again sitting to the right, holding a bow, not a cup, </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1218828[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>and I was reminded of that old comic strip series, a great classic, of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Verbeek" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Verbeek" rel="nofollow">Incredible Upside Downs</a>, published in <i>The New York Herald</i>, 1903-1905. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1218827[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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