325, Lot: 223. Estimate $150. Sold for $575. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Smyrna. Circa 85-75 BC. Æ (23mm, 14.82 g, 12h). Mithradatic Wars issue. Hermogenes and Phrixos, magistrates. Diademed head of Mithradates VI of Pontos right / Nike standing right, holding wreath and palm frond; EPMOΓE[NHΣ]/ΦPIΞOΣ in two lines to left. Milne, Autonomous Period XV, 340; Callataÿ pl. LI, Q; SNG von Aulock –; SNG Copenhagen 1206. VF, black and green patina, cleaning marks on obverse.