Watch List notes:

KINGS OF SOPHENE. Mithradates II Philopator, ca. 89 - after 85 BC. Dichalkon (Bronze, 18 mm, 3.21 g, 6 h), Arkathiokerta (?). Diademed head of Mithradates to left, wearing bashlyk. Rev. BAΣI MIΘ around club; MIΘ countermark on the right field. ACV -. CSC -. Kovacs 35 this obverse die. for c/m Kovacs 22. Dark green-brown patina; extremely rare type and apparently unpublished prior to Kovacs in 2016; interesting variation in the inscription with the use of the Σ instead of C. Very fine.

From the collection of Yerets' Kariatin, Switzerland.