Tetradrachm - Mithridates VI Eupator Pergamon; ΓKΣ Δ

Features

Issuer	Kings of Pontos
King	Mithridates VI (Μιθριδάτης Εὐπάτωρ) (120 BC - 63 BC)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Year	223 (74 BC)
Calendar	Bosporan era
Value	Tetradrachm (4)
Currency	Attic drachm
Composition	Silver
Weight	16.79 g
Diameter	31 mm
Shape	Round (irregular)
Technique	Hammered
Orientation	Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 581594
References	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. , DCA# 692 Edward E. Cohen; 2011. Dated Coins of Antiquity. Classical Numismatic Group, London, United Kingdom.

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Obverse

Diademed head of Mithradates VI to right.

Reverse

Stag grazing left; to left, star-in-crescent above monogram; to right, ΓKΣ (year) above monogram; Δ (month) in exergue; all within Dionysiac wreath of ivy and fruit.

Script: Greek

Lettering:
BAΣIΛEΩΣ
MIΘPAΔATOY
EYΠATOPOΣ
ΓKΣ
Δ

Translation:
King Mithridates Eupator
[year] 223
[month] 4

Mint

Pergamum, Mysia, modern-day Bergama, Turkey

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
223 (74 BC)								$ 6400				January 74 BC

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Past sales

Pictures	Sale	Date	Grade	Sold price
	Multiple sales of the same specimen: CNG Auction 118 Lot 227	13 Sep 2021	XF	USD 16 000.00 (+ buyer's premium)
© Classical Numismatic Group, Inc.
	Künker Auction 326 Lot 799	7 Oct 2019	XF	USD 5582.71 (EUR 4800.00) (+ buyer's premium)
Ex Münzen & Medaillen AG 95 (4 October 2004), lot 42; Numismatic Fine Arts XI (8 December 1982), lot 42
© Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co. KG, Osnabrück and Lübke & Wiedemann KG, Leonberg
	Stacks Bowers August 2014 Chicago ANA Auction Lot 310	5 Aug 2014	XF	USD 6463.00 (+ buyer's premium)
© Stacks Bowers