Attambelos II was a king of Characene,E. Yarshater, The Cambridge History of Iran, Cambridge University Press page 487Daniel T. Potts, Araby the Blest: Studies in Arabian Archaeology (Museum Tusculanum Press, 1988) p 141. a Parthian vassal state and important trading port on the Persian Gulf. His rule was from 17/16 to 9/8BC.Richard Nelson Frye, The History of Ancient Iran(C.H.Beck, 1984) p277.
He is known only from his coins, which have been found as far away as Susa and on Failaka Island in the Persian Gulf. Monika Schuol, The Characene. A Mesopotamian Kingdom in Hellenistic times. Steiner, Stuttgart 2000 page 226, 318-320. His Tetradrachms have a low silver content and like almost all Characene coinage show the kings likeness on the front and Heracles on the reverse.
His bronze coins show a Nike on the reverse.
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