Triton XX, Lot: 183. Estimate $5000. Sold for $7250. 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 (31.5mm, 16.61 g, 1h). Pergamon mint. Dated month 9, year 222 BE (June 75 BC). Diademed head right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ MIΘPAΔATOY EYΠATOPOΣ, stag grazing left; to left, star-in-crescent above monogram, BKΣ (year) above monogram; Θ (month) below; all within Dionysiac wreath of ivy and fruit. Callataÿ dies D34/R8; RG 16; HGC 7, 338; DCA 692; BMC pl. 9, 1 (same dies); Gulbenkian 946 (same obv. die). EF, toned.
Ex Nomos FPL (Winter-Spring 2010), no. 68.