289, Lot: 89. Estimate $1000. Sold for $2500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PONTOS. Mithradates VI Eupator. Circa 120-63 BC. AV Stater (22mm, 8.37 g, 12h). First Mithradatic War issue. In the name and types of Lysimachos of Thrace. Byzantion mint. Struck circa 88-86 BC. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, with horn of Ammon / Athena Nikephoros seated left, left arm resting on shield, spear diagonally in background; monogram to inner left, BY on throne; in exergue, ornate trident left. Callataÿ p. 142, dies D2/R–. EF, very minor die rust. Only one example listed by Callataÿ with this monogram (G. Hirsch 45, lot 1562 = G. Hirsch 37, lot 75).