279, Lot: 95. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PONTOS. Mithradates VI Eupator. Circa 120-63 BC. AV Stater (20mm, 8.28 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 below throne, ornamented trident in exergue. Callataÿ p. 141-2 (D4/R1); AMNG I 2480; SNG Copenhagen 1091 (same obv. die). EF.

This obverse die, D4, was used on multiple issues with different control marks, but the pellet was apparently added for this particular issue.