Extremely Rare Year

222, Lot: 164. Estimate $500. Sold for $2800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PONTOS. Mithradates VI Eupator. Circa 120-63 BC. AR Tetradrachm (31mm, 16.36 g, 12h). Dated CY 203 (95/4 BC). Diademed head of Mithradates right / Pegasos grazing left; star-in-crescent to left, ΓΣ (year) and monogram to right, B below; all within Dionysiac wreath of ivy and fruit. Callataÿ p. 10 (D22/R1); SNG Copenhagen -. VF, light porosity. Good portrait. Extremelely rare.

Callataÿ records only one specimen for this year.