CIMMERIAN BOSPOROS. Pantikapaion. Time of Mithridates VI Eupator, circa 79-65 BC. AE (Bronze, 27 mm, 16.18 g, 12 h), struck under Machares as governor (?). Head of youthful Dionysos to right, wearing ivy wreath and taenia. Rev. Bow in bow-case; to left, monogram. HGC 7, 110. MacDonald 180/21. SNG BM Black Sea 946-8. SNG Stancomb 597. Minor scratches and very light pitting on the reverse, otherwise, very fine.
From the Pontos Euxeinos Collection, formed in the late 1990s and early 2000s, Leu Web Auction 19, 26-28 February 2022, 915.