Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 1257. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PONTOS. Mithradates VI Eupator. Circa 120-63 BC. AV Stater (8.34 g, 12h). First Mithradatic War issue. Tomis mint. Struck in the name of Lysimachos of Thrace, circa 88-86 BC. Diademed head of deified Alexander right / Athena Nikephoros seated left; (HP)A to inner left, TO below throne, ornamented trident in exergue. Callataÿ p. 141 (D1/R- [unlisted rev. die]); AMNG I 2479; SNG Copenhagen -; BMC 282 (same obv. die). Good VF, lustrous, die shift on reverse. Exceptional with fresh obverse die.