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Auction 121  6-8 Oct 2022
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Lot 285

Estimate: 5000 USD
Price realized: 10 000 USD
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KINGS of PONTOS. Mithradates VI Eupator. Circa 120-63 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30.5mm, 16.81 g, 12h). Pergamon mint. Dated month 9, year 208 BE (June 89 BC). Diademed head right / Pegasos grazing left; BAΣIΛEΩΣ above, MIΘPAΔATOY/EYΠATOPOΣ in two lines below; star-in-crescent to left; to right, HΣ (year) above monogram; Θ (month) in exergue; all within Dionysiac wreath of ivy and fruit. Callataÿ p. 12, dies D47/R5, a and e = SNG von Aulock 6678 (this coin); HGC 7, 338; DCA 688; Dewing 2120 (same obv. die); Hirsch 1416 (same obv. die); Rhousopoulos 3215 (same obv. die). Deep cabinet tone, minor die shift. EF. Fine style.

From the Father & Son Collection, purchased from Sovereign Rarities. Ex Sheikh Saud Al-Thani Collection (Numismatica Ars Classica 106, 9 May 2018), lot 249; Harald Salvesen Collection; Hans von Aulock Collection; Numismatic Fine Arts IV (24 March 1977), lot 233.
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