| Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 29 | Auction date: 24 February 2024 |
| Lot number: 642 Price realized: 1,300 CHF (Approx. 1,476 USD / 1,364 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: KINGS OF PONTOS. Mithradates VI Eupator, circa 120-63 BC. Stater (Gold, 19 mm, 8.35 g, 12 h), First Mithradatic War issue, in the name and types of Lysimachos of Thrace, Kallatis, circa 88-86. Diademed head of Alexander the Great to right, with horn of Ammon over his ear. Rev. ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ - ΛΥΣΙΜΑΧΟΥ Athena seated left, holding Nike, crowning the king's name, in her right hand and leaning with her left arm on shield; behind, transverse spear; in inner left field, HPO; on throne, KAΛ; in exergue, ornate trident left. AMNG I 258. Callataÿ p. 140, D6/R-. SNG Stockholm 838. Struck from the usual worn obverse die and with light doubling on the reverse, otherwise, nearly extremely fine. From the collection of a Cosmopolitan, acquired before 2005. Starting price: 250 CHF |  |
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| Oslo Myntgalleri AS > Auction 38 | Auction date: 4 May 2024 |
| Lot number: 775 Price realized: 18,000 NOK (Approx. 1,627 USD / 1,522 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: KINGS of PONTOS. Mithradates VI Eupator, circa 120-63 BC. AV stater (18,5 mm; 8,21 g). First Mithradatic War issue, in the name and types of Lysimachos of Thrace. Kallatis mint. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, wearing horn of Ammon / ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ - ΛΥΣΙΜΑΧΟΥ, Athena Nikephoros seated left, holding Nike placing a wreath on the king's name, left arm resting on shield; transverse spear in background; HP monogram to inner left and KAΛ on throne; ornate trident in exergue. Light doubling on obverse, otherwise, well struck for type and lustrous with a light gold toning., Callataÿ D6/R4, Müller 266, Grade: 0/01, Purchased from Numisma Mynthandel AS in early 2000s Starting price: 15000 NOK |  |
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| Oslo Myntgalleri AS > Auction 38 | Auction date: 4 May 2024 |
| Lot number: 774 Price realized: 19,000 NOK (Approx. 1,718 USD / 1,607 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: KINGS of PONTOS. Mithradates VI Eupator, circa 120-63 BC. AV stater (18,5 mm; 8,17 g). First Mithradatic War issue, in the name and types of Lysimachos of Thrace. Istros mint, struck circa 88-86 BC. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, wearing horn of Ammon / ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ - ΛΥΣΙΜΑΧΟΥ, Athena Nikephoros seated left, holding Nike placing a wreath on the king's name, left arm resting on shield; transverse spear in background; ΔΙ monogram to inner left and IΣ on throne; ornate trident in exergue. A fine specimen that is almost as struck., Callataÿ dies D1/R1, AMNG I 482, Grade: 0/01, Purchased from Numisma Mynthandel AS in early 2000s Starting price: 15000 NOK |  |
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| Leu Numismatik AG > Auction 15 | Auction date: 1 June 2024 |
| Lot number: 79 Price realized: This lot is for sale in an upcoming auction - Bid on this lot  | |
| Lot description: KINGS OF PONTOS. Mithradates VI Eupator, circa 120-63 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 31 mm, 16.63 g, 12 h), year 207 of the Bithyno-Pontic era = 91/0 BC. Diademed head of Mithradates VI to right. Rev. BAΣIΛEΩΣ - MIΘPAΔATOY / EYΠATOPOΣ Pegasus grazing left; to left, star-in-crescent (Pontic royal badge); to right, ZΣ (year) above monogram; all within Dionysiac wreath of ivy and fruit. Callataÿ p. 11, D37/R3. DCA 688. RG p. 16, 15. SNG Paris 796 (same obverse die). An attractive piece with an unusually individualistic portrait. Minor marks and with light doubling on the reverse, otherwise, good very fine. From the Sam 'Duck' Reed Collection, Leu 13, 27 May 2023, 107, ex Harlan J. Berk Buy or Bid Sale 61, 20 March February 1990, 154. Estimate: 2000 CHF |  |
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| Classical Numismatic Group > Triton XXVII | Auction date: 9 January 2024 |
| Lot number: 219 Price realized: 7,000 USD (Approx. 6,411 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: KINGS of PONTOS. Mithradates VI Eupator. Circa 120-63 BC. AR Tetradrachm (33.5mm, 16.67 g, 12h). Pergamon mint. Dated month 12, year 223 BE (September 74 BC). Diademed head right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ MIΘPAΔATOY EYΠATOPOΣ, stag grazing left; to left, star-in-crescent above ΓKΣ (year); two monograms to right, Σ below, IB (month) in exergue; all within Dionysiac wreath of ivy and fruit. Cf. Callataÿ pp. 21–2 (for date, issue and obv. die unlisted); HGC 7, 340; DCA 692; Nomos Obolos 8, lot 260 var. (same obv. die, different positions of date and monograms). Minor die wear. EF. Extremely rare issue with letter below stag. Mithradates was a Hellenistic monarch par excellence, his career driven by megalomaniacal ambitions leading to murderous assaults upon family and followers and disastrous foreign adventures against superior forces. His portraiture attempts to mimic the gods with its bold staring gaze and unruly, free-flowing hair, but at its most extreme is a personification of hysteria in its Dionysiac sense. At the age of 18, Mithradates overthrew his mother's regency and embarked on a career of conquest, bringing most of the lands around the Black Sea into his domain. His expansionist aims inevitably brought him into conflict with Rome, and in preparation for the coming war he built up the largest army in Asia, unleashing it in 88 BC in what would be the First Mithradatic War. He sought to undermine the Roman power base by ordering the massacre of every Roman citizen in Asia in which nearly 80,000 people perished. The Romans were not intimidated, and when Mithradates crossed over to Greece proper as 'Liberator', the Roman legions under Sulla smashed his army. Mithradates retreated to Pontus, from where he continued to skirmish with the Romans, suffering more defeats to the general Lucullus. In 63 BC, having suffered a final defeat by Pompey and facing a revolt by his own son Pharnakes, the elderly king tried to commit suicide by taking poison, but he had inured himself to its affects by years of small counterdoses, and so had to be stabbed to death by one of his mercenaries. Estimate: 2500 USD |  |
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| Classical Numismatic Group > Triton XXVII | Auction date: 9 January 2024 |
| Lot number: 220 Price realized: 4,250 USD (Approx. 3,893 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: KINGS of PONTOS. Mithradates VI Eupator. Circa 120-63 BC. AV Stater (19mm, 8.20 g, 12h). First Mithradatic War issue. In the name and types of Lysimachos of Thrace. Istros mint. Struck circa 88-86 BC. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, with horn of Ammon / ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΛΥΣΙΜΑΧΟΥ, Athena Nikephoros seated left; ΔΙ to inner left, IΣ on throne; in exergue, ornate trident left. Callataÿ p. 139, dies D1/R1; AMNG I 482; HGC 3, 1799; SNG Copenhagen (Thrace) 1094 (same dies); McClean 4481 (Thrace; same dies). In NGC encapsulation 4996359-001, graded Ch MS, Strike: 4/5, Surface: 5/5, die shift. Ex Collection of a Gentleman (Stack's Bowers Galleries, 16 August 2021), lot 42090; Coin Galleries (12 July 2000), lot 2. Estimate: 2000 USD |  |
