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PONTIC KINGDOM. Mithradates VI Eupator, the Great (120-63 BC). AV stater (20mm, 8.34 gm, 11h). NGC Choice VF 5/5 - 3/5. Dated Bithyno-Pontic year 213 (85 BC), month 10, Pergamon. Diademed head of Mithradates VI right, with wind-blown hair / BAΣIΛEΩΣ / MIΘPAΔATOY / EYΠATOPOΣ, stag grazing left; star and crescent to left, ΓΙΣ (date) above ΦEΔ monogram to right, I (month) below, all within ivy wreath. HGC 7, 333. De Callataÿ D12/R1 (this coin illustrated on plate 1). Waddington Recueil pg. 13, 9 (this coin listed). SNG von Aulock 6677. SNG Copenhagen 233.
From the Penn Collection. Ex Triton II (1 December 1998), lot 402; Bank Leu AG Auktion 30 (28 April 1982), lot 155; Collection A. Ouvaroff (1887), no. 513
Mithradates VI "the Great" was the last Hellenistic ruler to challenge the might of Rome. His long and eventful career spanned a nearly 60-year-reign in which he was a constant thorn in the side of the Romans as they sought to consolidate their conquests. His gold coinage falls into two groups: A mass mintage of gold staters imitating the types of Lysimachus of Thrace from more than two centuries earlier, and a much smaller and more carefully produced issue of dated gold staters with his name and portrait. The imagery deliberately evokes the memory of Alexander the Great, depicting himself as a semi-divine conqueror with flowing, windswept hair. These rare and desirable coins represent the last great example of Hellenistic portraiture in gold, and as such are highly prized.
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PONTIC KINGDOM. Mithradates VI Eupator, the Great (120-63 BC). AV stater (20mm, 8.34 gm, 11h). NGC Choice VF 5/5 - 3/5. Dated Bithyno-Pontic year 213 (85 BC), month 10, Pergamon. Diademed head of Mithradates VI right, with wind-blown hair / BAΣIΛEΩΣ / MIΘPAΔATOY / EYΠATOPOΣ, stag grazing left; star and crescent to left, ΓΙΣ (date) above ΦEΔ monogram to right, I (month) below, all within ivy wreath. HGC 7, 333. De Callataÿ D12/R1 (this coin illustrated on plate 1). Waddington Recueil pg. 13, 9 (this coin listed). SNG von Aulock 6677. SNG Copenhagen 233.
From the Penn Collection. Ex Triton II (1 December 1998), lot 402; Bank Leu AG Auktion 30 (28 April 1982), lot 155; Collection A. Ouvaroff (1887), no. 513
Mithradates VI "the Great" was the last Hellenistic ruler to challenge the might of Rome. His long and eventful career spanned a nearly 60-year-reign in which he was a constant thorn in the side of the Romans as they sought to consolidate their conquests. His gold coinage falls into two groups: A mass mintage of gold staters imitating the types of Lysimachus of Thrace from more than two centuries earlier, and a much smaller and more carefully produced issue of dated gold staters with his name and portrait. The imagery deliberately evokes the memory of Alexander the Great, depicting himself as a semi-divine conqueror with flowing, windswept hair. These rare and desirable coins represent the last great example of Hellenistic portraiture in gold, and as such are highly prized.
https://coins.ha.com/itm/ancients/greek/ancients-pontic-kingdom-mithradates-vi-eupator-the-great-120-63-bc-av-stater-20mm-834-gm-11h-ngc-choice-vf/a/3089-31027.s?type=CoinArchives3089
HID02906262019
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Estimate: 5000-7000 USD