325, Lot: 179. Estimate $500. Sold for $500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PONTOS. Mithradates VI Eupator. Circa 120-63 BC. AV Stater (19mm, 8.33 g, 12h). First Mithradatic War issue. In the name and types of Lysimachos. Tomis mint. Struck circa 88-86 BC. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, with horn of Ammon / Athena Nikephoros seated left, left arm resting on shield, spear in background; ΘEM to inner left, TO below throne, ornate trident in exergue. Müller 273; Callataÿ p. 141, dies D4/R–; AMNG I 2480; SNG Copenhagen (Thrace) 1091 (same obv. die). VF, struck from a worn and rusted obverse die.