CNG 97, Lot: 150. Estimate $10000. Sold for $14000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PONTOS. Mithradates VI Eupator. Circa 120-63 BC. AV Stater (19mm, 8.48 g, 1h). Pergamon mint. Dated year 2 of the Pergamene Era (88/7 BC). Diademed head right / Stag grazing left; BAΣIΛEΩΣ above, MIΘPAΔATOY/EYΠATOPOΣ in two lines below; star-in-crescent to left; to right, B (year) above monogram (of Pergamon); all within Dionysiac wreath of ivy and fruit. Callataÿ dies D7/R– (unlisted rev. die); HGC 7, 334; DCA 689; SNG Berry 892 (same obv. die); SNG von Aulock 6676 (same obv. die); Gulbenkian 941 (same obv. die). Good VF, a few marks, small scratch in field on obverse, reverse a little off center. Rare.