276, Lot: 164. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PONTOS. Mithradates VI Eupator. Circa 120-63 BC. AV Stater (20mm, 8.38 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; pellet behind / Athena Nikephoros seated left; ΘEM to inner left, TO on throne, ornamented trident in exergue. Callataÿ p. 141-2 (D4/R-); AMNG I, 2480; SNG Copenhagen 1091 (same obv. die). EF.