Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 308. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008.  Sold For $1470. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PONTOS. Mithradates VI Eupator. Circa 120-63 BC. AV Stater (8.29 g). First Mithradatic War issue. Kallatis mint. Struck in the name of Lysimachos of Thrace, circa 88-86 BC. Diademed head of deified Alexander right / Athena Nikephoros seated left; HPO to inner left, KAΛ below throne, ornamented trident in exergue. Callataÿ p. 140 (D6/R2); AMNG I 258; SNG Copenhagen -; SNG Stockholm 838 (Thrace; same obv. die). Good VF, minor die rust, slight die shift on reverse.