Watch List notes:

KINGS OF ARMENIA MINOR. Mithradates (?), circa 180s-170s BC. Chalkous (Bronze, 10 mm, 0.88 g, 1 h). Draped bust of Mithradates (?) to left, bearded and wearing upright bashlyk tied with a diadem; around, uncertain Aramaic legend. Rev. Draped female bust to right. Kovacs -. Leu 4 (2019), 361 and 7 (2020), 1348 (with longer notes on the issue). Very rare. Very fine.


From the collection of an Armenian businessman, acquired before 2021, ex Leu Web Auction 13, 15-16 August 2020, 478 and previously from an important collection of Armenian coins.