KINGS OF SOPHENE. Abdissares, circa 210 BC. Dichalkon (Bronze, 15 mm, 3.21 g, 1 h), uncertain mint. Diademed, bearded and draped bust of Abdissares to right, wearing folded bashlyk-style tiara. Rev. [Β]AΣIΛΕ[ΩΣ] [A]BΔIΣΣAPOY [A]ΔIABHNOY Eagle standing to right with closed wings. ACV -. Alram 176. CAA -. Callataÿ, "Abdissares l'Adiabenien" 2.2. Kovacs 14 ( this coin ). A spectacular and extremely rare coin with a bold portrait and an appealing patina. Very fine.

From the collection of Yerets’ Kariatin, Switzerland, ex Lanz 158, 5 June 2014, 295.

Abdissares is a king who is unknown in our written sources; while Callataÿ suggested that he was the successor of king Xerxes of Sophene, it now seems more likely that he was his predecessor. In any case, the similarities between the portraits of these two rulers on the obverses of their bronze coinage definitively link them chronologically.