Watch List notes:

KINGS of PONTOS. Mithradates VI Eupator. Circa 120-63 BC. AR Tetradrachm (31mm, 16.69 g, 11h). Pergamon mint. Dated month 2, year 224 BE (December 74 BC). Diademed head right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ MIΘPAΔATOY EYΠATOPOΣ, stag grazing left; to left, star-in-crescent above BKΣ (year); two monograms to right, B (month) below; all within Dionysiac wreath of ivy and fruit. Callataÿ p. 21 dies D60/R2; RG 16; HGC 7, 338; DCA 692; Nanteuil 683 (same dies). Lightly toned, some minor porosity, flan flaw on reverse. Good VF.


From the Jonathan P. Rosen Collection. Ex Gemini XIII (6 April 2017), lot 58.