Triton XVIII, Lot: 560. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PONTOS. Mithradates VI Eupator. Circa 120-63 BC. AV Stater (19.5mm, 8.29 g, 12h). First Mithradatic War issue. In the name and types of Lysimachos of Thrace. Kallatis mint. Struck circa 88-86 BC. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, with horn of Ammon / BAΣIΛEΩ[Σ] ΛYΣIMAXOY, Athena Nikephoros seated left, left arm resting on shield, spear diagonally in background; HP monogram to inner left, KAΛ on throne; in exergue, ornate trident left. Callataÿ p. 140, dies D5/R4; AMNG I 266; SNG Copenhagen (Thrace) 1089 (same dies); SNG Ashmolean (Thrace) 3767. EF, minor double strike.

From the collection of the MoneyMuseum, Zurich. Acquired from Leu, July 1999.