Unique Stater of Mithradates Philopator

CNG 100, Lot: 63. Estimate $7500. Sold for $9000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PONTOS. Mithradates IV Philopator. Circa 169-150 BC. AV Stater (19mm, 8.50 g, 12h). Amisos or Sinope mint. Head right, wearing laurel wreath / [B]AΣIΛEΩΣ MIΘPAΔATOY, Hera standing facing, leaning on long scepter held in her right hand; star within crescent to left, [two monograms to right]. Callataÿ, First, dies O1/R1, a = SNG von Aulock 4 = Mattingly pl. 56, 3 = Callataÿ pl. 50, R = Alram 23 = G. Kleiner, “Pontische Reichsmünzen” in IstMitt 6 (1955), pl. 2, 12 (this coin); HGC 7, 325 (this coin illustrated). Near VF, marks and scuffs. Unique.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Sincona 10 (27 May 2013), lot 108; James & Sneja Velkov Collection (Vinchon, 24 November 1994), lot 52; Hans von Aulock Collection, 4.