341, Lot: 173. Estimate $750. Sold for $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PONTOS. Mithradates VI Eupator. Circa 120-63 BC. AV Stater (19mm, 8.29 g, 12h). First Mithradatic War issue. In the name and types of Lysimachos of Thrace. Tomis mint. Struck circa 88-86 BC. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, with horn of Ammon / Athena Nikephoros seated left; ΠΑC monogram to inner left, TO on throne; in exergue, ornate trident left. Callataÿ p. 141-2, dies D4/R– (unlisted monogram); AMNG I 266 var. (monogram). VF, struck from a worn obverse die, as usual.

From Group SGF.

A monogram of the letters ΠΑ is known combined with obverse die D3 (AMNG I 264), but the monogram on this example has a C (lunate Σ) on the right side of the monogram.