Sale: CNG 67, Lot: 993. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 22 September 2004.  Sold For $390. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of CHARACENE. Orabazes II(?). Circa 150-165 AD. Æ Tetradrachm (12.25 gm). Diademed head right / Herakles seated left on rock, holding club set on knee. Le Rider, Characène -; Alram 507; BMC Arabia pg. 310, 1 (Unknown Sub-Characenian King); De Morgan pg. 535, 24 (Obadias or Obadas); Le Rider, Suse pl. XXXVII, 44 (Unknown Sub-Characenian King). VF for issue, brown patina. Extremely rare, fewer than 10 specimens known. ($300)

From the Bellaria Collection. Ex Distinguished American Collection (Peus 332, 23-28 October 1991), lot 306.

Among the rarest issues of the Characene series.