Hyspaosines of Characene (127-124 BCE)

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Hyspaosines (also spelled Aspasine, c. 209 BC - 11 June 124 BC) was an Iranian satrap installed by Antiochus IV Epiphanes and later the first King (before 127-124 BC) of Characene (Mesene/Meshun). The portraiture of his coinage is Hellenistic in character.

Die Studies

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Overstriking coins

Item	Overstriking coin	Metal	Date	Overstruck type
25590 - Charax Spasinou (Hyspaosines) (tetradrachm Hyspaosines/Heracles) over uncertain type (Triton, XXVI, Jan. 2023, 453)		Silver	122 BC JL
27794 - Charax Spasinou (Hyspaosines) (tetradrachm Hyspaosines/Heracles) over uncertain type (CNG, EA 563, June 2024, 333)		Silver	122 BC JL
25599 - Charax Spasinou (Hyspaosines) (tetradrachm Hyspaosines/Heracles ZΠP) over uncertain type (CNG, 114, May 2020, 461)		Silver	126 BC JL
25595 - Charax Spasinou (Hyspaosines) (tetradrachm Hyspaosines/Heracles EΠP) over uncertain royal Hellenistic type (CNG, EA 539, May 2023, 390)			128 BC JL

Overstruck coins

Item	Overstruck type	Metal	Date	Overstriking coin
2718 - Seleuceia ad Tigrim (interregnal Parthian king) (tetradrachm long bearded head/Tyche) over Charax Spasinou (Hyspaosines) (Hyspaosines/Heracles) (Triton, IV, Dec. 2000, 326)		Silver	127 BC JL

Hyspaosines of Characene

Type ᵖ	Person
Nomisma ID	https://nomisma.org/id/hyspaosines_characene
Links	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1641597

Literature

• Alram 1986 (4 mentions)
• Assar 2001 (4 mentions)
• 13 (1 mentions)
• Nelson 2011 (1 mentions)