Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 355. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PONTOS. Mithradates VI. 120-63 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.68 gm, 12h). Pergamon mint. Dated month 6 of 222 BE (March 75 BC). Diademed head right, hair tousled and flowing freely / BASILEWS MIQRADATOU EUPATOROS, stag grazing left; to left, star, crescent, and monogram to left, pellet below, BKS (year) and monogram to right, C (month) in exergue; all within Dionysiac wreath of ivy and fruit. De Callataÿ pg. 18 (D26/R5); RG pg. 17; BMC Pontus pg. 44, 5 var. (month); SNG Copenhagen -; SNG von Aulock 6681 (same dies). EF, lightly toned, light scratches on obverse. ($2000)

From the Ronald Cohen Collection. Ex Ponterio 117 (18-19 January 2001), lot 299.

See lot 353 for more information on the coinage of Mithradates VI.