Triton XX, Lot: 332. Estimate $500. Sold for $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of SOPHENE. Abdissares. Late 3rd–mid 2nd centuries BC. Æ Chalkous (12.5mm, 1.76 g, 1h). Bearded and draped bust right, wearing folded tiara and diadem / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ABΔIΣΣAP[OY], head of horse right. Kovacs 16; Nercessian, Coinage 29; AC 16; Alram 178; Babelon, Rois 5; F. de Callataÿ, “Abdissares l’Adiabenien” in Iraq 58 (1996), 3. Good VF, dark brown patina. Extremely rare, the second known, the other in the BN (referred to by all references above).