Very Rare Variety

347, Lot: 205. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PONTOS. Mithradates VI Eupator. Circa 120-63 BC. AV Stater (19mm, 8.28 g, 12h). First Mithradatic War issue. In the name and types of Lysimachos of Thrace. Tomis mint; Dion–, magistrate. Struck circa 88-86 BC. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, with horn of Ammon / Athena Nikephoros seated left; ΔION to inner left, TO on throne; in exergue, ornate trident left. Callataÿ p. 142, dies D4/R– (unlisted rev. die); AMNG I 2475–5 (short form of magistrate’s name); Triton XIII, lot 1256 (same dies); Noble 100, lot 3362 (same dies). VF, usual light die wear on obverse, die break on reverse. Very rare variant with longer form of magistrate’s name.

From Group SGF.