Sale: CNG 70, Lot: 198. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 21 September 2005.  Sold For $1800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PONTOS. Mithradates VI. 120-63 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.68 g, 12h). Pergamon mint. Dated month 11 of 213 BE (August 84 BC). Diademed head right, hair tousled and flowing freely / Stag grazing left; star in crescent to left, GIS (year) to right, IA (month) in exergue; all within Dionysiac wreath of ivy and fruit. De Callataÿ p. 17 (D11/R3 - specimen a = P. Pollak, "A Bithynian Hoard of the First Century B.C." ANSMN 16 [1970], 2 - this coin); RG p. 17; SNG Copenhagen -. VF, toned. ($1500)

From the John F. Sullivan Collection. Ex Malloy 6 (12 March 1976), lot 103; Myers FPL (March 1974), no. 71; Naville 15 (2 July 1930), lot 851; Bithynia, 1928 Hoard (IGCH 1384).