CIMMERIAN BOSPOROS. Pantikapaion. Time of Mithridates VI Eupator, circa 120-105 BC. Drachm (Silver, 18 mm, 5.42 g, 1 h). Laureate head of Apollo to right. Rev. ΠΑΝΤΙΚΑ-ΠΑΙΤΩΝ Bow in bow-case above club and monogram of pellet-in-Π. HGC 7, 99. MacDonald -, cf. 152/15 (sword instead of club). SNG BM Black Sea -. SNG Stancomb -. An extremely rare variety and struck on an exceptionally heavy flan. Slightly rough, otherwise, good very fine.
From the Pontos Euxeinos Collection, formed in the late 1990s and early 2000s.