KINGS OF COMMAGENE. Mithradates II, sole reign, circa 36-20 BC. Chalkous (Bronze, 17.5 mm, 5.83 g, 1 h), first series, Laodikeia, year IΓ (=13 = 36-35). Head of Mithradates to right, wearing high bashlyk. Rev. BAΣIΛEΩΣ MIΘPAΔA-TOY Pegasus leaping to left, his back feet on the hilt of a dagger lying to left; in field to left, ΙΓ. ACV 189. Alram -. Kovacs 233. Very rare. With an intriguing portrait and an unusual reverse ( Pegasus on a dagger ). Reverse weakly struck, otherwise, good very fine.

From the collection of Yerets’ Kariatin, Switzerland.