Triton XVIII, Lot: 563. Estimate $7500. Sold for $14000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PONTOS. Mithradates VI Eupator. Circa 120-63 BC. AR Tetradrachm (32mm, 16.46 g, 11h). Pergamon mint. Dated month 11, year 222 BE (August 75 BC). Diademed head right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ MIΘPAΔATOY EYΠATOPOΣ, stag grazing left; to left, star-in-crescent above monogram, BKΣ (year) above monogram; IA (month) below; all within Dionysiac wreath of ivy and fruit. Callataÿ dies D39/R– (unlisted rev. die); RG 16; HGC 7, 338; DCA 692; SNG von Aulock 9 var. (month letters reversed; same obv. die); Gulbenkian 949 (same obv. die as 947 and 948). EF, dark iridescent tone.