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Stater - Mithridates VI Pergamon

Features

Issuer Kings of Pontos
King Mithridates VI (Μιθριδάτης Εὐπάτωρ) (120 BC - 63 BC)
Type Standard circulation coins
Year 3 (86 BC)
Calendar Pergamon era
Value Gold Stater (20)
Currency Attic drachm
Composition Gold
Weight 8.39 g
Diameter 20 mm
Shape Round (irregular)
Technique Hammered
Orientation Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
581317
References SNG France# 806
Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum France (8 volumes).
, Gulbenkian# 942
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (publisher). A Catalogue of the Calouste Gulbenkian Collection of Greek Coins. Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal (2 volumes).
, HGC 7# 334
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.

Obverse

Diademed head of Mithradates VI to right.

Reverse

Stag grazing left; star and crescent to left, Γ (date) above monogram to right, monogram below, all within Dionysiac ivy wreath.

Script: Greek

Lettering:
BAΣIΛEΩΣ
MIΘPAΔATOY
EYΠATOPOΣ
Γ

Translation:
King Mithridates Eupator
[year] 3

Mint

Pergamum, Mysia, modern-day Bergama, Turkey

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
3 (86 BC)  Photo $ 13 000

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Examples of the type

Picture 1 of the example of Stater - Mithridates VI (Pergamon) Picture 2 of the example of Stater - Mithridates VI (Pergamon)
© Bibliothèque nationale de France / Gallica, ark:/12148/btv1b10303740t
8.47 g
Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, France 7, Paphlagonie, Pont et Arménie mineure n° 806.
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Past sales

Pictures Sale Date Grade Sold price
Picture 1 of a sold Stater - Mithridates VI (Pergamon)
Multiple sales of the same specimen:
Heritage Auctions
2019 January 6 - 7 NYINC World Coins Signature Auction - New York 3071
Lot 34033
Internet Archive
6 Jan 2019 AU
(NGC Choice AU 5/5 - 4/5)
USD 12 000.00
(+ buyer's premium)
Picture 1 of a sold Stater - Mithridates VI (Pergamon)
CNG
Auction 102
Lot 336
Internet Archive
18 May 2016 XF USD 11 000.00
(+ buyer's premium)
Picture 1 of a sold Stater - Mithridates VI (Pergamon)
Roma Numismatics
Auction 10
Lot 562
Internet Archive
27 Sep 2015 XF Unsold
Picture 1 of a sold Stater - Mithridates VI (Pergamon)
Roma Numismatics
Auction 9
Lot 406
Internet Archive
22 Mar 2015 XF Unsold
Picture 1 of a sold Stater - Mithridates VI (Pergamon)
Roma Numismatics
Auction 7
Lot 756
Internet Archive
22 Mar 2014 XF Unsold
Picture 1 of a sold Stater - Mithridates VI (Pergamon)
Leu Numismatik
Auction 1
Lot 72
Internet Archive
25 Oct 2017 XF USD 13 902.05
(CHF 11 000.00)
(+ buyer's premium)
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