Triton XVIII, Lot: 562. Estimate $5000. Sold for $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PONTOS. Mithradates VI Eupator. Circa 120-63 BC. AR Tetradrachm (33.5mm, 16.70 g, 11h). Pergamon mint. Dated month 11, year 212 BE (August 85 BC). Diademed head right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ MIΘPAΔATOY EYΠATOPOΣ, stag grazing left; to left, star-in-crescent above monogram, BIΣ (year) above monogram; IA (month) below; all within Dionysiac wreath of ivy and fruit. Callataÿ dies D3/R1, b (this coin); M.J. Price, “Mithradates VI Eupator, Dionysus, and the Coinages of the Black Sea” in NC 1968, pl. I, 6 = RG 16, pl. suppl. B, 12 = Mionnet II 10 (same dies); HGC 7, 338; DCA 688. EF, lightly toned, small area of flat strike.

From the RAJ Collection. Ex Sotheby’s (4 October 1990), lot 102.