Tetradrachm - Apodakos

Characene was a semi-independent kingdom carved out of the Seleucid collapse at the head of the Persian Gulf, its capital Charax Spasinou functioning as a major entrepôt linking overland Mesopotamian trade with Gulf and Indian Ocean commerce. Apodakos ruled in the early phase of the dynasty, and his coinage is rare enough that die studies remain incomplete. The BMC attribution places this among the foundational references for the series, though Alram's corpus remains the more rigorous modern treatment of Characenian issues.