Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 1007. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $465. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of CHARACENE. Hyspaosines(?). Circa 127-124 BC. Æ 18mm (5.34 g, 6h). Diademed head right / Upturned anchor, illegible legend in fields. Cf. Newell, Mithradates of Parthia and Hyspaosines of Characene: A Numismatic Palimpsest (NNM 26 [1925]), pl. II, 7; Houghton 1322 corr. (Demetrios I; this coin); cf. Alram 492 (for obv.). Near VF, brown patina.

Although the anchor was the symbol of Seleukid power, the style of this coin argues for a non-Seleukid attribution. It is also possible that this is an issue of Kamnaskires I/II of Elymais.