342, Lot: 255. Estimate $1000. Sold for $2750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PONTOS. Mithradates VI Eupator. Circa 120-63 BC. AR Tetradrachm (33.5mm, 16.44 g, 12h). Pergamon mint. Dated month 2, year 213 BE (November 85 BC). Diademed head right / Stag grazing left; star-in-crescent to left; to right, ΓIΣ (year) above monogram; B (month) below; all within Dionysiac wreath of ivy and fruit. Callataÿ dies D8/R2, b (this coin); HGC 7, 338; DCA 688. VF, toned, cheek lightly smoothed, small scratch on reverse.

From the collection of a Southern Pathologist. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 25 (24 March 1993), lot 285; Numismatic Fine Arts [XXIV] (18 October 1990), lot 252; Superior (12 December 1987), lot 402.