CNG 94, Lot: 400. Estimate $1000. Sold for $2000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PONTOS. Mithradates VI Eupator. Circa 120-63 BC. AV Stater (20mm, 8.35 g, 12h). First Mithradatic War issue. In the name and types of Lysimachos of Thrace. Tomis mint. Struck circa 88-86 BC. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, with horn of Ammon / Athena Nikephoros seated left, arm resting on shield, spear diagonally in background; ΔIO to inner left, TO on throne; in exergue, ornate trident left. Callataÿ p. 141, dies D4/R– (unlisted rev. die); AMNG I 2476; HGC 6, –; SNG Copenhagen (Thrace) 1093. EF.

From the Robert M. Harlick Collection. Ex Garth R. Drewry Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 67, 22 September 2004), lot 626.