271, Lot: 20. Estimate $2000. Sold for $3750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PONTOS. Mithradates VI Eupator. Circa 120-63 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29mm, 16.62 g, 12h). Pergamon mint. Dated 209 BE (89/8 BC). Diademed head right / Pegasos grazing left; BAΣIΛEΩΣ and ΘΣ (date) above, star-in-crescent to left, monogram to right; MIΘPAΔATOY/EYΠATOPOΣ in two lines below; all within Dionysiac wreath of ivy and fruit. Callataÿ dies D55/R27; SNG von Aulock 7; SNG BM Black Sea 1034-5; SNG Copenhagen –; SNG Lockett 2646 (same obv. die); SNG Tübingen 2073 (same obv. die); Davis Collection 185 (same dies). EF, dark iridescent toning, minor obverse die wear.

Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong. Ex Triton II (1 December 1998), lot 405.