Tetradrachm - Mithridates VI Eupator Pergamon; ΓKΣ IB

Features

Issuer	Kings of Pontos
Król	Mithridates VI (Μιθριδάτης Εὐπάτωρ) (120 BC - 63 BC)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Year	223 (74 BC)
Calendar	Bosporan era
Value	Tetradrachm (4)
Currency	Drachma poddasza
Composition	Srebro
Weight	16.62 g
Diameter	35.5 mm
Shape	Okrągły (nieregularny)
Technique	Młotkowana
Orientation	Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 472858
References	SNG BM Black Sea# 1042 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. , DCA# 692 Edward E. Cohen; 2011. Dated Coins of Antiquity. Classical Numismatic Group, London, United Kingdom. , HGC 7# 340 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. , Du Chastel# 245 François de Callataÿ, Johan van Heesch; 1999. Greek and Roman Coins from the Du Chastel Collection: Coin Cabinet of the Royal Library of Belgium. Spink & Son, London, United Kingdom. , Bendenoun# 22 Michel-Max Bendenoun (ed.); 2009. Coins of the Ancient World : History's Priceless Treasures: A Portrait of the JDL Collection. Tradart, Geneva, Switzerland. , Jameson# 1367 Robert Jameson. Collection R. Jameson. Feuardent, Paris, France (4 volumes).

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Obverse

(en) Diademed head of Mithradates VI to right.

Reverse

(en) Stag grazing left; BAΣIΛEΩΣ above, MIΘPAΔATOY/EYΠATOPOΣ in two lines below; to left, star-in-crescent above ΓKΣ (year); two monograms to right, IB (month) in exergue; all within Dionysiac wreath of ivy and fruit.

Script: grecki

Lettering:
BAΣIΛEΩΣ
MIΘPAΔATOY
EYΠATOPOΣ
ΓKΣ
IB

Mint

Pergamum, Mysia, modern-day Bergama, Turkey

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
223 (74 BC)							$ 2500	$ 3800				(en) September 74 BC

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Past sales

Pictures	Sale	Date	Grade	Sold price
	Numismatik Naumann GmbH Auction 152 Lot 241	4 May 2025	XF	USD 3774.86 (EUR 3250.00) (+ buyer's premium)
© Numismatik Naumann GmbH
	CNG Triton XXVII Lot 219	9 Jan 2024	XF	USD 7000.00 (+ buyer's premium)
© Classical Numismatic Group, Inc.
	Multiple sales of the same specimen: Heritage Auctions 2022 May 5 - 7 Central States World Coins & Ancient Coins Platinum Session and Signature® Auction 3099 Lot 31132	5 May 2022	XF (ANACS XF 45)	USD 1900.00 (+ buyer's premium)
© Heritage Auctions
	Heritage Auctions 2020 December 18 - 19 HKINF World Coins & Ancient Coins Signature Auction - Hong Kong 3087 Lot 30025	18 Dec 2020	XF (ANACS XF45)	USD 3600.00 (+ buyer's premium)
© Heritage Auctions
	Multiple sales of the same specimen: CNG Triton XXIII Lot 293	14 Jan 2020	XF	USD 75 000.00 (+ buyer's premium)
Ex Classical Numismatic Review XLII.1 (Winter 2017), no. 436344
© Classical Numismatic Group, Inc.
	Numismatica Ars Classica Auction 92 Part 1 Lot 185	23 May 2016	XF	USD 40 544.87 (CHF 32 000.00) (+ buyer's premium)
© Numismatica Ars Classica NAC AG
	Numismatica Ars Classica Auction 74 Lot 289	18 Nov 2013	XF	USD 82 356.77 (CHF 65 000.00) (+ buyer's premium)
Ex The Numismatic Auction II (12 December 1983), lot 122 = Bendenoun 22
© Numismatica Ars Classica NAC AG
	Multiple sales of the same specimen: CNG Triton XVI Lot 412	9 Jan 2013	XF	USD 9000.00 (+ buyer's premium)
© Classical Numismatic Group, Inc.
	Gorny & Mosch Auction 129 Lot 135	8 Mar 2004	XF	USD 2090.69 (EUR 1800.00) (+ buyer's premium)
© Gorny & Mosch GmbH Giessener Münzhandlung
	CNG Triton VIII Lot 356	11 Jan 2005	XF	USD 3500.00 (+ buyer's premium)
Ex Numismatic Fine Arts 14 (29 November 1984), lot 128; Sternberg 13 (7-8 November 1983), lot 157; Hess 252 (24-25 May 1982), lot 60
© Classical Numismatic Group, Inc.