Triton XVII, Lot: 244. Estimate $5000. Sold for $5500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PONTOS. Mithradates VI Eupator. Circa 120-63 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 16.82 g, 12h). Pergamon mint. Dated 209 BE (89/8 BC). Diademed head right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ MIΘPAΔATOY EYΠATOPOΣ, Pegasos grazing left; star-in-crescent to left; to right, ΘΣ (date) above monogram; all within Dionysiac wreath of ivy and fruit. Callataÿ obv. die D53; HGC 7, 338; DCA 688; SNG von Aulock 7; SNG BM Black Sea 1034–5 (same obv. die); SNG Copenhagen –; Dewing 2121 = Jameson 1366 (same obv. die); Pozzi 2095 (same obv. die). EF, lightly toned, small edge split.

From the Alex Shubs Collection.