274, Lot: 133. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PONTOS. Mithradates VI Eupator. Circa 120-63 BC. AV Stater (19mm, 8.25 g, 12h). First Mithradatic War issue. Istros mint. Struck in the name of Lysimachos of Thrace, circa 88-86 BC. Diademed head of deified Alexander right, with horn of Ammon / Athena Nikephoros seated left; ΔI to inner left, IΣ on throne, ornamented trident in exergue. Callataÿ p. 139 (D1/R1); AMNG I 482; SNG Copenhagen 1094 (same dies). EF, minor roughness.