Mysia. Pergamum (?). 145-140 BC. AR Stephanophoric Tetradrachm (16.74g, 12h). Meadows 2013, 184-191; Nicolet-Pierre & Amandry 11 (this coin). Very rare. Lightly toned. Among the finest known of this intriguing issue. Choice extremely fine. From a private collection; Frank Sternberg 1986 (17) lot 124

This issue had long been attributed to the island of Syros based on the reverse legend... Recent scholarship, however, has convincingly shown that this attribution is erroneous, as the reverse legend does not contain an ethnic, but names the type: the Divine Syrian Kaberioi. As the issue has long been linked to a very rare portrait emission of Eumenes with the same reverse type, it is clear that it must belong to a mint in the sphere of the kings of Pergamum. Although this Attic-standard issue could have been struck at one of several mints under Attalid control, it is tempting to attribute it to the royal mint at Pergamum