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King of Characene. Hyspaosines(?) (Circa 127-124 BC). Æ

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King of Characene. Hyspaosines(?) (Circa 127-124 BC). Æ. (3.21g/ 16mm). Diademed head right/ Upturned anchor, illegible legend in fields. Newell, Mithradates of Parthia and Hyspaosines of Characene: A Numismatic Palimpsest (NNM 26 [1925]), pl. II, 7; Houghton 1322 corr. (Demetrios I; this coin); cf. Alram 492. Very fine. Extremely rare.

Although the anchor was the symbol of Seleukid power, the style of this coin argues for a non-Seleukid attribution. It is also possible that this is an issue of Kamnaskires I/II of Elymais.

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