Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 354. Estimate $7500.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $10000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PONTOS. Mithradates VI. 120-63 BC. AV Stater (8.35 gm, 12h). Pergamon mint. Dated Pergamene Era year 2 (88/7 BC). Diademed head right, hair tousled and flowing freely / BASILEWS MIQRADATOU EUPATOROS, stag grazing left; pellet below, star and crescent to left, B (date) and monogram to right; all within Dionysiac wreath of ivy and fruit. De Callataÿ pg. 5 (D7/R2 - this coin listed as specimen e); RG pg. 13; BMC Pontus pg. 43, 1 var. (year 4); SNG Copenhagen 233 var. (year 213 of the Pontic Era); SNG von Aulock 6676 (same obverse die); Kraay & Hirmer 774 (same dies). EF. Very rare. ($7500)

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection. Ex George & Robert Stevenson Collection (Classical Numismatic Group XXVI, 11 June 1993), lot 75; Leu 45 (26 May 1988); lot 192.

See lot 353 for more information on the coinage of Mithradates VI.