Sale: Triton V, Lot: 1398. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 January 2002.  Sold For $4500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PONTOS, Kings of. Mithradates VI. 120-63 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.71 gm). Year 213 (85/84 BC). Diademed head of Mithradates right / BASILEWS above, MIQRADATOU EUPATOROS below, Pegasos grazing left; star, crescent and monogram left, GIS and monogram to right, A below; all within ivy wreath. De Callataÿ pg. 16 D5/R3 (this coin listed as specimen a). Superb EF, a few insignificant field marks, just a trace of double striking on the obverse. Exceptional. ($3000)

Ex Dieter Gorny Auktion 46 (30 October 1989), lot 197.