Ancients
PONTIC KINGDOM. Mithradates VI Eupator (120-63 BC). AR tetradrachm (34mm, 16.90 gm, 11h). NGC Choice XF 5/5 - 4/5, Fine Style. Pergamum, Year 4 of the Pompeian era, 85/4 BC. Diademed head of Mithradates right, with windswept hair / BAΣIΛEΩΣ MIΘPAΔATOY EYΠATOPOΣ, Stag grazing left; star-in-crescent to left Δ above ΣKA monogram to right, all within Dionysiac wreath of ivy and fruit. De Callatay, p. 23, pl. XIII. A high style life-like portrait framed on a large flan with a few minor contact marks.
From the Kentfield Collection.
HID02901242017
Estimate: 2000-4000 USD