★ Lightly toned and with a fine portrait of Mithradates VI ★

KINGS OF PONTOS. Mithradates VI Eupator, circa 120-63 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 32 mm, 19.61 g, 12 h), uncertain mint in Pontos. Year 205 of the Bithyno-Pontic era, 8th month = May 92 BC. Diademed head of Mithradates VI to right. Rev. BAΣIΛEΩΣ / EYΠATOPOΣ Pegasos grazing left; to left, star-in-crescent (Pontic royal badge); to right, EΣ (year) above monogram; in exergue, H (month); all within Dionysiac wreath of ivy and fruit. Callataÿ p. 10 and pl. III. HGC 7, 338. SNG Copenhagen 234 ( same obverse die ). SNG Paris -. SNG von Aulock 6 ( same obverse die ). Lightly toned and with a fine portrait. A few minor marks and with very light doubling, otherwise, about extremely fine.

From a European collection, formed before 2005.