★ Attractive crab issue ★

KINGS OF COMMAGENE. Mithradates III (?), circa 20-12 BC. AE (Bronze, 20 mm, 11.89 g, 4 h). Crab. Rev. BA•ME / M•TOY / •M• in three lines. Alram 249. Kovacs p. 42, note 45. Edge split, otherwise, good very fine.

From the collection of an Armenian businessman, ex Naumann E-Auction 100, 7 March 2021, 281.

While Alram attributes this issue to Mithradates III, Kovacs notes: 'Alram 249, coin with crab obverse and BA•ME/M•TOY/•M• reverse, is probably an issue of Carrhae for another king (Kovacs, forthcoming)'. Pending Kovacs' publication, we still follow Alram's traditional attribution here.