★ Aristion, partizan of Mithradates ★

Attica. Athens. ΑΡΙΣΤΙΩΝ (Aristion) ΦΙΛΩΝ (Philon) -ΓΕ (-ge), magistrates circa 100-86 BC.
Tetradrachm AR. New Style coinage. Class IV (α).

27mm., 15,80g.

Head of Athena Parthenos to right, wearing necklace, pendent earring, and triple-crested Attic helmet decorated with the protomes of four horses above the visor, a Pegasos in flight rightward above the raised earpiece / A-ӨE, ΑΡΙ-ΣΤΙ-ΩΝ, ΦΙ-[Λ]ΩΝ, [Η]ΓΕ, owl standing right, head facing, on Panathenaic amphora, Pegasos grazing or drinking left in right field, rose in left field, unknown letter on amphora, unknown monogram below, all within olive-wreath.

very fine

Thompson 989 var.