Watch List notes:

KINGS of PONTOS. Mithradates VI Eupator. Circa 120-63 BC. AR Tetradrachm (31mm, 16.74 g, 1h). Pergamon mint. Dated month 9, year 208 BE (June 89 BC). Diademed head right / Pegasos grazing left; BAΣIΛEΩΣ above, MIΘPAΔATOY/EYΠATOPOΣ in two lines below; star-in-crescent to left; to right, HΣ (year) above monogram; B (month) in exergue; all within Dionysiac wreath of ivy and fruit. Callataÿ p. 12, dies D47/R5; HGC 7, 338; DCA 688; SNG von Aulock 6678 (same dies); Dewing 2120 (same obv. die); Hirsch 1416 (same obv. die); Rhousopoulos 3215 (same obv. die). Attractive cabinet tone. EF.


From the Jonathan P. Rosen Collection. Ex Roma XIII (23 March 2017), lot 392; Leu 72 (12 May 1998), lot 227; Sternberg VII (24 November 1977), lot 104.