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Auction XXII  7-8 Oct 2021
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Lot 285

Estimate: 7500 GBP
Price realized: 11 000 GBP
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Kings of Pontos, Mithradates VI Eupator AR Tetradrachm. Dated Bithyno Pontic Era 207, intercalary month 13 = 91/0 BC. Diademed head to right / Pegasos on ground line to left, preparing to lie down, BAΣΙΛEΩΣ above, MIΘPAΔATOY EYΠATOPOΣ below; star within crescent to left, ZΣ (year) and monogram to right, IΓ (month) below; all within ivy wreath. De Callataÿ pl. IV, D38/R- (this rev. die unlisted); BMC -; SNG von Aulock -; SNG Copenhagen -; DCA 688; HGC 7, 338. 16.89g, 32mm, 12h.

Mint State; struck on a large planchet and exceedingly well-preserved, with mirror-like lustre. Extremely Rare; apparently the second known example after a single specimen recorded by de Callataÿ.

From the inventory of a German dealer.
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