Watch List notes:

Pontic, Mithradates VI; 120-36 BC. Year 219=79/78 BC, month 12, Tetradrachm, 16.70g. Cf. SNG Aulock-10 (there Year 223, IB rather than BI, diff. 2nd monogram). Obv: Diademed head of Mithradates r. with flowing hair. Rx: BAΣIΛEΩΣ / MIΘPAΔATOY / EYΠATOPOΣ / BI in four lines across field, Stag standing l., grazing; star and crescent and monogram before his head, date ΘIΣ and second monogram behind him; all within ivy wreath.Wonderful portrait of one of the great challengers of Roman Republican expansion in the East. This coin and the next three in our sale show him as he viewed himself in his highest moment of power MS