Triton XV, Lot: 1192. 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 (18mm, 8.30 g, 12h). First Mithradatic War issue. In the name and types of Lysimachos of Thrace. Kallatis mint. Struck circa 88-86 BC. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, with horn of Ammon / BAΣIΛEΩ[Σ] ΛYΣIMAXO[Y], Athena Nikephoros seated left, left arm resting on shield, spear diagonally in background; (HP monogram)O to inner left, KAΛ on throne; in exergue, ornate trident left. Callataÿ p. 140, dies D6/R2; AMNG I 258; SNG Copenhagen –; SNG Stockholm 838 (Thrace; same obv. die). EF.