CNG 85, Lot: 2. Estimate $750. Sold for $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of SOPHENE. Arsames II. Circa 230 BC. Æ (21mm, 7.61 g, 12h). Diademed and draped bust right, wearing flat-topped tiara / Uncertain figure standing left, extending hand and holding club. Bedoukian, Coinage 6; AC 7 (this coin cited and illustrated). VF, brown patina, a few cleaning scratches. Rare.

From the R.A. Collection. Ex Araratian Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 36, 5 December 1995), lot 534.