CIMMERIAN BOSPOROS. Pantikapaion. Time of Mithridates VI Eupator, circa 90-79 BC. Tetrachalkon (Bronze, 22 mm, 5.80 g, 12 h). Laureate head of Apollo to right. Rev. ΠΑΝ-ΤΙΚΑ/ΠΑΙ-ΤΩN Filleted thyrsos leaning against tripod; to left and right, monogram. HGC 7, 120. MacDonald 171/3. SNG BM Black Sea 937-40 var. (additional control on reverse). SNG Stancomb 595. Heavy traces of overstriking with much of the undertype still visible, otherwise, very fine.

From the Pontos Euxeinos Collection, formed in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

This coin was overstruck on a bronze coin of Amisos with an aegis on the obverse and Nike on the reverse (HGC 7, 242).