Kings of Pontos, Mithradates VI Eupator AR Tetradrachm. Pergamon, dated Bithyno Pontic Era 224 BE = December 74/3 BC. Diademed head to right / Stag grazing to left; BAΣIΛEΩΣ above, MIΘPAΔATOY EYΠATOPOΣ in two lines below, star-crescent above ΔKΣ (date) to left, two monograms to right, Γ (month) below; all within Dionysiac wreath of ivy and fruit. Callataÿ, p. 21 and pl. XI (D61/R- [unlisted rev. die]); SNG Copenhagen 236; DCA 692; HGC 7, 340. 16.78g, 34mm, 10h.
Good Extremely Fine; previously graded by NGC, Ch AU 5/5 - 4/5 (4535282-019). Rare for this year and month combination.
Ex Stack's Bowers Galleries (& Ponterio), January 2018 NYINC Auction, 11 January 2018, lot 21035.