PONTIC KINGDOM. Mithradates VI Eupator (120-63 BC). AV stater (19mm, 8.26 gm, 1h). NGC AU S 5/5 - 5/5. Late posthumous issue in name and types of Lysimachus of Thrace, Tomis, period of the 1st Mithradatic War, 88-86 BC. Diademed head of deified Alexander III right, with horn of Ammon; pellet in left field / ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ / ΛYΣΙΜΑΧΟY, Athena seated left, Nike in right hand crowning royal name, elbow resting on shield decorated with star motif, transverse spear beyond; ΘΕΜ under right arm, TO on throne, filleted trident left in exergue. De Callataÿ p. 141. AMNG I 2480.

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