CIMMERIAN BOSPOROS. Pantikapaion. Time of Mithridates VI Eupator, circa 120-105 BC. Hemidrachm (Silver, 14 mm, 1.84 g, 12 h). Head of Dionysos to right, wearing taenia and wreath of ivy and fruit. Rev. ΠΑΝΤΙΚΑ-[Π]ΑΙΤΩN Filleted thyrsos; in field to left, pellet-in-Π. HGC 7, 102. MacDonald 153/3. SNG BM Black Sea -. SNG Stancomb -. Very rare. Slightly rough and the obverse struck somewhat off center, otherwise, good very fine.
From the Pontos Euxeinos Collection, formed in the late 1990s and early 2000s.