Triton XIX, Lot: 2054. Estimate $10000. Sold for $13000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PONTOS. Mithradates VI Eupator. Circa 120-63 BC. AV Stater (20mm, 8.45 g, 12h). Amisos or Sinope mint. Dated 205 BE (93/2 BC). Diademed head right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ MIΘPAΔATOY EYΠATOPOΣ, stag grazing left; star-in-crescent to left, monogram to right, EΣ (date) in exergue; all within Dionysiac wreath of ivy and fruit. Callataÿ dies D2/R– (unlisted rev. die); HGC 7, 332 (same obv. die as illustration); Pozzi 2093 (same obv. die). Good VF, lightly toned, slight die shift on obverse. Extremely rare, one of two known of this issue (the other in the ANS).

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Inventory 735296 (May 2003); Leu 86 (5 May 2003), lot 382.