Tetradrachm - Mithridates VI Eupator Pergamon; HΣ Θ

Features

Issuer	Kings of Pontos
Król	Mithridates VI (Μιθριδάτης Εὐπάτωρ) (120 BC - 63 BC)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Year	208 (89 BC)
Calendar	Bosporan era
Value	Tetradrachm (4)
Currency	Drachma poddasza
Composition	Srebro
Weight	16.83 g
Diameter	31 mm
Shape	Okrągły (nieregularny)
Technique	Młotkowana
Orientation	Medal alignment ↑↑
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 472851
References	SNG BM Black Sea# 1033 Martin Jessop Price; 1993. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum (Great Britain) / Volume 9.1. The British Museum. Part 1: The Black Sea. British Museum, London, United Kingdom. , SNG von Aulock# 6678 Gebr. Mann (publisher). Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Sammlung von Aulock. Gebr. Mann, Berlin, Germany (17 volumes). , SNG Ashmolean# 198 Oxford University Press (publisher). Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Volume V - Ashmolean Museum. Oxford University Press, London, United Kingdom (7 volumes). , Gulbenkian# 939 Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (publisher). A Catalogue of the Calouste Gulbenkian Collection of Greek Coins. Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal (2 volumes). , Consul Weber# 2270 Jacob Hirsch. Sammlung Consul Eduard Friedrich Weber. Munich, Bavaria, Germany (2 volumes). , Hirsch# 1416 Paul Naster; 1959. La collection Lucien de Hirsch. Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium (2 volumes). , Rhousopoulos# 3215-3216 Jacob Hirsch; 1905. Auctions-Catalog einer hochbedeutenden Sammlung Griechischer Münzen: aus dem Nachlasse eines bekannten Archäologen = Auctions catalog of a highly important collection of Greek coins. Munich, Bavaria, Germany. , Dewing# 2120 Leo Mildenberg (ed.), Silvia Mani Hurter (ed.); 1985. The Dewing Collection of Greek Coins. American Numismatic Society, New York City, New York, United States (2 volumes). , HGC 7# 338 Oliver D. Hoover; 2012. Handbook of Coins of Northern and Central Anatolia / Volume 7: Pontos, Paphlagonia, Bithynia, Phrygia, Galatia, Lykaonia, and Kappadokia (with Kolchis and the Kimmerian Bosporos): Fifth to First Centuries BC. Classical Numismatic Group, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States / London, United Kingdom. , Nanteuil# 682 Henri Joseph de la Barre de Nanteuil, Louis Ciani (ed.), Jules Florange (ed.); 1925. Collection de monnaies grecques H. de Nanteuil. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France (2 volumes).

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Obverse

(en) Diademed head of Mithradates VI to right.

Reverse

(en) Pegasus grazing left; in field to left, star-in-crescent (Pontic royal badge); to right, HΣ (year) above monogram; in exergue, Θ (month); all within Dionysiac wreath of ivy and fruit.

Script: grecki

Lettering:
BAΣIΛEΩΣ MIΘPAΔATOY EYΠATOPOΣ
HΣ
Θ

Mint

Pergamum, Mysia, modern-day Bergama, Turkey

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
208 (89 BC)								$ 5400				(en) June 89 BC

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SNG BM Black Sea 1033

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SNG Ashmolean IX, 198

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Past sales

Pictures	Sale	Date	Grade	Sold price
	Gemini Auction VII Lot 438	9 Jan 2011	UNC	USD 8500.00 (+ buyer's premium)
From The Rockefeller University/Dr. Alfred E. Mirsky collection
© Gemini Numismatic Auctions LLC
	Multiple sales of the same specimen: Heritage Auctions 2023 May 3 - 5 CSNS World Coins Platinum Session and Signature® Auction 3107 Lot 31071	3 May 2023	AU (NGC Choice AU 4/5 - 5/5)	USD 6500.00 (+ buyer's premium)
© Heritage Auctions
	CNG Mail Bid Sale 64 Lot 222	24 Sep 2003	XF	USD 2700.00 (+ buyer's premium)
© Classical Numismatic Group, Inc.
	Nomos AG Auction 37 Lot 122	16 Nov 2025	XF	USD 2505.89 (CHF 2000.00) (+ buyer's premium)
Ex Bourgey, 4 May 1987, 48
© Nomos AG
	Multiple sales of the same specimen: Leu Numismatik Auction 17 Lot 289	31 May 2025	XF	USD 16 288.26 (CHF 13 000.00) (+ buyer's premium)
© Leu Numismatik
	Künker Auction 376 Lot 4019	18 Oct 2022	XF	USD 8055.85 (EUR 7000.00) (+ buyer's premium)
© Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co. KG, Osnabrück and Lübke & Wiedemann KG, Leonberg
	Hess Divo Auction 310 Lot 106	22 Oct 2008	XF	USD 8770.60 (CHF 7000.00) (+ buyer's premium)
From the collection of O. H. Knoepke, Glendining & Baldwin's, 10 December 1986, 237
© Hess Divo
	Multiple sales of the same specimen: CNG Auction 121 Lot 285	6 Oct 2022	XF	USD 10 000.00 (+ buyer's premium)
© Classical Numismatic Group, Inc.
	Numismatica Ars Classica Auction 106 Lot 249	9 May 2018	XF	USD 9397.07 (CHF 7500.00) (+ buyer's premium)
From Hans von Aulock Collection; ex Numismatic Fine Arts IV (24 March 1977), lot 233 = SNG von Aulock 6678
© Numismatica Ars Classica NAC AG
	CNG Triton XXV Lot 210	11 Jan 2022	XF	USD 5000.00 (+ buyer's premium)
© Classical Numismatic Group, Inc.