Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 1256. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PONTOS. Mithradates VI Eupator. Circa 120-63 BC. AV Stater (8.30 g, 12h). First Mithradatic War issue. Tomis mint. Struck in the name of Lysimachos of Thrace, circa 88-86 BC. Diademed head of deified Alexander right / Athena Nikephoros seated left; ΔION to inner left, TO below throne, ornamented trident in exergue. Callataÿ p. 141-2 var. (obv. die D4, but with ΔI and ΔIO, not ΔION); AMNG I 2475-6 var. (same); SNG Copenhagen 1092-3 var. (same obv. die; same). Good VF. Unpublished variety with ΔION.