★ Extremely Rare Date ★

No Reserve

Kings of Pontos, Mithradates VI Eupator AR Tetradrachm. Dated Bithyno Pontic Era 206, month 3 = December 92/1 BC. Diademed head to right / Pegasos on ground line to left, preparing to lie down; BAΣΙΛEΩΣ above, MIΘPAΔATOY EYΠATOPOΣ in two lines below; star-in-crescent to left, CΣ (year) and monogram to right, Γ (month) below; all within Dionysiac wreath of ivy and fruit. De Callataÿ pl. IV (D33/R-); Waddington p. 15, 15; DCA 688; HGC 7, 338. 16.68g, 33mm, 12h.

Good Extremely Fine. Extremely Rare; no other examples of this date on CoinArchives.

Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd., Auction XXIII, 24 March 2022, lot 254.