Sale: CNG 67, Lot: 626. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 22 September 2004.  Sold For $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PONTOS. Mithradates VI. 120-63 BC. AV Stater (8.31 gm). Tomis mint. Struck during the First Mithradatic War, 88-86 BC. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, with horn of Ammon / Athena seated left, holding Nike, left arm resting on shield, spear behind; DIO to inner left, TO on throne, trident in exergue. De Callataÿ pg. 141 (D4/R-, unlisted reverse die); AMNG I 2476; SNG Copenhagen 1093. EF. ($500)

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection.