Triton XVI, Lot: 412. Estimate $3000. Sold for $9000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PONTOS. Mithradates VI Eupator. Circa 120-63 BC. AR Tetradrachm (22mm, 16.63 g, 11h). Pergamon mint. Dated 223 BE (75/4 BC). Diademed head right / Pegasos grazing left; BAΣIΛEΩΣ above, MIΘPAΔATOY/EYΠATOPOΣ in two lines below; to left, star-in-crescent above ΓKΣ (date); two monograms to right, ΓB in exergue; all within Dionysiac wreath of ivy and fruit. Callataÿ dies D54/R– [unlisted rev. die]; SNG von Aulock –; SNG BM Black Sea –; SNG Copenhagen –; Du Chastel 245 (same obv. die); DCA 692. EF, toned. Struck on a broad flan.

From the RCM Collection. Ex Gorny & Mosch 129 (8 March 2004), lot 135.