Watch List notes:

KINGS OF PONTOS. Mithradates VI Eupator, circa 120-63 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 31 mm, 16.63 g, 12 h), year 207 of the Bithyno-Pontic era = 91/0 BC. Diademed head of Mithradates VI to right. Rev. BAΣIΛEΩΣ - MIΘPAΔATOY / EYΠATOPOΣ Pegasus grazing left; to left, star-in-crescent (Pontic royal badge); to right, ZΣ (year) above monogram; all within Dionysiac wreath of ivy and fruit. Callataÿ p. 11, D37/R3. DCA 688. RG p. 16, 15. SNG Paris 796 (same obverse die). An attractive piece with an unusually individualistic portrait. Minor marks and with light doubling on the reverse, otherwise, good very fine.


From the Sam 'Duck' Reed Collection, ex H. J. Berk Buy or Bid Sale 61, 20 March February 1990, 154.