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341, Lot: 279. Estimate $100.
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KINGS of CHARACENE. Thionesios I. Circa 25-19/8 BC. BI Tetradrachm (33.4mm, 11.69 g, 12h). Charax-Spasinu mint. Dated SE 292 (21/20 BC). Diademed head right / [B]AΣIΛEΩ[Σ]/ΘΙΟNHΣIO[Y] downward to right, ΣΩΤΗΡΟ Σ/KAI EYEP[...] downward to left, Herakles seated left; (OA) monogram above arm, Β(qoppa)Σ (date) in exergue. Cf. Nicolet-Pierre, Theonèsis, p. 54 (for monogram); DCA 486 corr. (date recorded, but erroneous, see below). VF, some porosity. Unpublished with this date.


DCA cites O. Lange, “Ein Hellenistisches Konigreich am Persischen Golf” in Der Münzen und Medaillensammler Berichte 115 (January/February 1980), p. 1083 for a coin with this date. Lange does not list the Greek form of the date, but cites G. Le Rider’s 1959 article in Syria 36, where that author gives the Greek date as Γ(koppa)Σ, but erroneously translates it as SE 292. Le Rider cited G. Hill NNM 14 (1922), p. 8-9, where the date is correctly given as SE 283 (and is illustrated on pl, III, A).