An extremely rare bronze of Antiochos I Theos and Mithradates II
Lot 406
KINGS OF COMMAGENE. Mithradates II, circa 34-20 BC. AE (Bronze, 26 mm, 8.95 g, 1 h), struck in the name of Antiochos I Theos and Mithradates II, Samosata. [BA MΕΓ ANTIOXOY] (?) Draped bust of Antiochos I to right, wearing Armenian tiara. Rev. [BA MΕΓA MIΘPAΔ MIΘPA] (?) Zebu bull butting right. Alram 247. Bedoukian, Commagene, -. Kovacs 229. RPC I -. G. Staab: Ehrung und Königsdesignation Mithradates' II. von Kommagene durch seinen Vater Antiochos I. auf dem Nemrud Dağı, in: Epigraphika Anatolica 44 (2011), p. 63-66. Extremely rare. Struck on an unusually broad and complete flan. With the usual obverse die break and some roughness, otherwise, fine.

For a longer discussion of this important issue, see Leu 1, 25 October 2017, 99
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100 CHF
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1000 CHF
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Closing time: 25-Feb-18, 16:23:00 CET
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