388, Lot: 101. Estimate $500. Sold for $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PONTOS. Mithradates VI Eupator. Circa 120-63 BC. AV Stater (19mm, 8.36 g, 12h). First Mithradatic War issue. In the name and types of Lysimachos of Thrace. 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 diagonally in background; ΘЄM to inner left, TO on throne; in exergue, ornate trident left. Callataÿ p. 142, dies D4/R3; AMNG I 2480; SNG Stockholm 839 (same dies). Good VF, underlying luster, usual die rust on obverse.