Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 356. Estimate $4000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PONTOS. Mithradates VI. 120-63 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.68 gm, 12h). Pergamon mint. Dated month 12 of 223 BE (September 74 BC). Diademed head right, hair tousled and flowing freely / BASILEWS MIQRADATOU EUPATOROS, stag grazing left; star, crescent, and GKS (year) to left, two monograms to right, IB (month) in exergue; all within Dionysiac wreath of ivy and fruit. De Callataÿ pg. 21 (D54/R2 - this coin); RG pg. 18; BMC Pontus pg. 44, 7 var. (monograms and month); SNG Copenhagen -; SNG von Aulock 6683 var. (month). Choice EF, lightly toned. ($4000)

Ex Numismatic Fine Arts 14 (29 November 1984), lot 128; Sternberg 13 (7-8 November 1983), lot 157; Hess 252 (24-25 May 1982), lot 60.

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