Triton XIX, Lot: 2055. Estimate $15000. Sold for $22500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PONTOS. Mithradates VI Eupator. Circa 120-63 BC. AV Stater (18mm, 8.47 g, 12h). Pergamon mint. Dated year 2 of the Pergamene Era (87 BC). Diademed head right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ MIΘPAΔATOY EYΠATOPOΣ, stag grazing left; star-in-crescent to left; to right B (date) above civic monogram of Pergamon; all within Dionysiac wreath of ivy and fruit. Callataÿ dies D7/R4, b (this coin); HGC 7, 334; SNG von Aulock 6676 (same dies); SNG Berry 892 (same obv. die); Boston MFA Supp. 135 (same obv. die); Gulbenkian 941 (same obv. die). Good VF, lightly toned, a few minor marks.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Nelson Bunker Hunt Collection (Sotheby’s New York, 21 June 1990), lot 446; Leu 28 (5 May 1981), lot 127; Hess-Leu (2 April 1958), lot 196.