358, Lot: 109. Estimate $3000. Sold for $4250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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KINGS of PONTOS. Mithradates VI Eupator. Circa 120-63 BC. AR Tetradrachm (33mm, 16.68 g, 12h). Pergamon mint. Dated 231 BE (67/6 BC). Diademed head right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ MIΘPAΔATOY EYΠATOPOΣ, Stag grazing left; star-in-crescent to left, monogram to right, AΛΣ (date) in exergue; all within Dionysiac wreath of ivy and fruit. Callataÿ p. 22, obv. die D77; HGC 7, 340; DCA 692; SNG von Aulock –; SNG BM Black Sea –; SNG Copenhagen –; RG pl. 20, 6 = Waddington 131 (same obv. die). EF, slightly weak strike in areas.