CNG 93, Lot: 338. Estimate $500. Sold for $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PONTOS. Mithradates VI Eupator. Circa 120-63 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 16.34 g, 1h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Odessos mint. Circa 80-72/1 BC. Head of Herakles, with the features of Mithradates VI, right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; ΛAKΩ in left field, OΔH in exergue. Callataÿ group 3, dies D5/R7; Price 1193; Topalov, Odesos 80; SNG Lockett 1463 (same obv. die). Near EF, toned, minor flan flaw on eyebrow.