CNG 94, Lot: 397. Estimate $3000. Sold for $8500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PONTOS. Mithradates VI Eupator. Circa 120-63 BC. AR Tetradrachm (32mm, 16.82 g, 12h). Pergamon mint. Dated month 8, year 208 BE (May 89 BC). Diademed head right / Stag grazing left; BAΣIΛEΩΣ above, MIΘPAΔATOY/EYΠATOPOΣ in two lines below; star-in-crescent to left; to right, HΣ (year) above monogram; H (month) in exergue; all within Dionysiac wreath of ivy and fruit. Callataÿ p. 11, dies O43/R3; SNG von Aulock –; HGC 7, 338; SNG Lewis 792 (same dies). EF, attractive light toning.

From the James Fox Collection.