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PONTIC KINGDOM. Mithradates VI Eupator, the Great (120-63 BC). AR tetradrachm (31mm, 16.76 gm, 11h). NGC MS 5/5 - 4/5, Fine Style. Pergamon, dated July Bithyno-Pontic Era 223 (75/4 BC). Diademed head of Mithradates VI right, with windswept hair / BAΣIΛEΩΣ / MIΘPAΔATOY / EYΠATOPOΣ, stag grazing left; star in crescent above ΣΚΑΕΩ monogram to left, ГKΣ (date) above ΗΠΥΚΕΙ monogram to right, I (month) in exergue, all within Dionysiac wreath of ivy and fruit. HGC 7, 340. DCA 692. SNG Copenhagen 236 (same dies). Fantastic strike on a broad flan of good metal, with frosty surfaces.
HID02901242017
Estimate: 5000-6000 USD
PONTIC KINGDOM. Mithradates VI Eupator, the Great (120-63 BC). AR tetradrachm (31mm, 16.76 gm, 11h). NGC MS 5/5 - 4/5, Fine Style. Pergamon, dated July Bithyno-Pontic Era 223 (75/4 BC). Diademed head of Mithradates VI right, with windswept hair / BAΣIΛEΩΣ / MIΘPAΔATOY / EYΠATOPOΣ, stag grazing left; star in crescent above ΣΚΑΕΩ monogram to left, ГKΣ (date) above ΗΠΥΚΕΙ monogram to right, I (month) in exergue, all within Dionysiac wreath of ivy and fruit. HGC 7, 340. DCA 692. SNG Copenhagen 236 (same dies). Fantastic strike on a broad flan of good metal, with frosty surfaces.
HID02901242017
Estimate: 5000-6000 USD