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72, Lot: 20. Estimate $400.
Sold for $360. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PONTOS. Mithradates VI. 120-63 BC. AV Stater (19mm, 8.28 gm). Istros mint. Struck during the First Mithradatic War, 88-86 BC. Diademed head of the deified Alexander the Great right, wearing horn of Ammon / Athena seated left, holding Nike, left elbow resting on her shield, spear behind; DI above knee, IS on throne, trident in exergue. Cf. De Callataÿ Pl. XXXVIII, B (Byzantion); cf. SNG Stancomb 204 (Circa 200-150 BC); cf. SNG Copenhagen (Thrace) 1087 (Byzantion). Good VF. An apparently unpublished variety of apparently early style.