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361, Lot: 4. Estimate $500.
Sold for $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PONTOS. Mithradates VI Eupator. Circa 120-63 BC. AV Stater (19mm, 8.29 g, 1h). First Mithradatic War issue. In the name and types of Lysimachos of Thrace. Tomis mint. Struck circa 88-86 BC. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, with horn of Ammon / Athena Nikephoros seated left, left arm resting on shield, spear diagonally in background; Q(Â to inner left, to on throne; in exergue, ornate trident left. Callataÿ p. 142, dies D4/R3, i (this coin); AMNG I 2480; SNG Stockholm 839 (same dies). Good VF, usual die wear and die rust on obverse, slight die shift on reverse.


From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 49 (17 March 1999), lot 658; Sternberg XIII (17 November 1983), lot 123.