353, Lot: 133. Estimate $1000. 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, 8.27 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; HPO to inner left, KAΛ on throne; in exergue, ornate trident left. Callataÿ p. 140, dies D6/R1; AMNG I 258; SNG Copenhagen –. Good VF, slight die shift on the reverse, struck from a worn obverse die.

From Group SGF.