Watch List notes:

KINGS OF COMMAGENE. Arsamaes (Theosebes?), before circa 130 BC. Dichalkon (Bronze, 18 mm, 3.90 g, 9 h). Head of Arsames to right, wearing diademed bashlyk with beaded edges. Rev. [ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ / ΑΡΣΑΜΟΥ] - ΘΕΟ[...] (?) Winged thunderbolt. Kovacs 218. Extremely rare and of great interest. Struck slightly off center and with a die break on the reverse, otherwise, about very fine.


From the collection of an Armenian businessman, acquired before 2021, ex Obolos 17, 20 December 2020, 371.