CNG 106, Lot: 535. Estimate $1500. Sold for $2750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of CHARACENE. Apodakos. Circa 110/09-104/03 BC. AR Tetradrachm (33mm, 15.94 g, 12h). Uncertain mint. Dated SE 207 (106/5 BC). Diademed head right / Herakles seated left on rock, holding club on knee; monogram to outer left; ZΣ (date) in exergue. Alram 496.1; BMC, p. cxcvii and pl. LIV, 2; De Morgan 2 and pl. XL, 3 var. (date); Sunrise –; DCA 480. VF, toned, slight double strike on reverse. Overstruck on an uncertain mint tetradrachm of Demetrios I (head right within wreath/Tyche seated left).

From the Nisa Collection.