345, Lot: 268. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PONTOS. Mithradates VI Eupator. Circa 120-63 BC. AV Stater (18.5mm, 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 / Athena Nikephoros seated left; HP monogram to inner left, KA on throne; in exergue, ornate trident left. Callataÿ p. 140, dies D6/R4; AMNG I 266. EF, lustrous, usual die wear.

From the Patrick H. James Collection. Ex CNG Inventory 714309 (July 1999).