Sale: CNG 67, Lot: 621. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 22 September 2004.  Sold For $226. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PONTOS, Amisos. Circa 109-89 BC. Æ 31mm (19.76 gm). Head of Athena right, wearing triple-crested Attic helmet / Perseus standing facing, holding harpa and Medusa's head; Medusa's body at his feet, monograms flanking him. De Callataÿ pl. 48, F; SNG BM Black Sea 1169; SNG Copenhagen 137 var. (monograms). VF, brown patina, reverse slightly double struck. Attractive. ($300)

Traditionally dated to the period of the First Mithradatic War, De Callataÿ has placed this issue during the period of Mithradates VI's expansion of Pontic influence in Asia Minor prior to that conflict.