Watch List notes:

KINGS OF ARMENIA MINOR. Mithradates, circa 180s-170s BC. Chalkous (Bronze, 14 mm, 1.85 g, 4 h), Arkathiokerta (?). Draped bust of Mithradates I to left, bearded and wearing bashlyk tied with a diadem. Rev. 𐡌𐡕𐡓𐡃𐡕 ('mtrdt' in Aramaic) Lion walking right. Kovacs -, cf. 28 (lion standing to left). Leu 4 (2019), 312. Extremely rare and unusually attractive for this difficult issue. Very fine.


Ex Leu Web Auction 13, 15-16 August 2020, 469 and previously from an important collection of Armenian coins.