452, Lot: 307. Estimate $500. Sold for $1400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PONTOS. Mithradates VI Eupator. Circa 120-63 BC. AV Stater (18mm, 8.28 g, 12h). First Mithradatic War issue. In the name and types of Lysimachos of Thrace. Kallatis mint. Struck circa 88-86 BC. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, with horn of Ammon / Athena Nikephoros seated left; (HP)O to inner left, KAΛ on throne; in exergue, ornate trident left. Callataÿ p. 140, dies D6/R2; AMNG I 258; SNG Copenhagen –. Struck from worn and rusty dies. Good VF.

From the John L. Cowan Collection, purchased from Pegasi, February 2009.