Watch List notes:

KINGS of PONTOS. Mithradates VI Eupator. Circa 120-63 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29.5mm, 16.64 g, 12h). Pergamon mint. Dated month 11, year 226 BE (August 72 BC). Diademed head right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ MIΘPAΔATOY EYΠATOPOΣ, stag grazing left; star-in-crescent to left; to right, ςKΣ (year) above monogram; IA (month) below; all within Dionysiac wreath of ivy and fruit. Unpublished, but cf. HGC 7, 340 and DCA 692 for type. Toned, slight die shift, a few light scratches on reverse. Near EF. Extremely rare, the only published example for this date.


From the Jonathan P. Rosen Collection. Ex Gemini XIII (6 April 2017), lot 59; Berk BBS 199 (29 September 2016), lot 110.