400, Lot: 482. Estimate $200. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of CHARACENE. Thionesios I. 25/24-19/18 BC. BI Tetradrachm (30mm, 14.92 g, 12h). Charax-Spasinu mint. Dated 289 SE (24/3 BC). Diademed head right / Herakles seated left, holding club on knee; monogram above; M below arm; year in exergue. Nicolet-Pierre, Thionèsis, p. 53 and pl. V, 22 corr. (M, not Aramaic he); Sunrise –; G. Hirsch 326, lot 1826. VF, toned, porosity . Very rare.

From the collection of a Texas Wine Doctor.