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.