Tetradrachm - Mithridates VI Eupator Pergamon; EΣ A

Features

Issuer	Kings of Pontos
King	Mithridates VI (Μιθριδάτης Εὐπάτωρ) (120 BC - 63 BC)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Year	205 (93 BC)
Calendar	Bosporan era
Value	Tetradrachm (4)
Currency	Attic drachm
Composition	Silver
Weight	16.55 g
Diameter	33 mm
Shape	Round (irregular)
Technique	Hammered
Orientation	Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 581977
References	SNG France# 792 Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum France (8 volumes). , Waddington# 119 Ernest Babelon; 1898. Inventaire sommaire de la collection Waddington: Acquise par l'État en 1897 pour le département des Médailles et Antiques de la Bibliothèque Nationale. Rollin & Feuardent, Paris, France.

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Obverse

Diademed head of Mithradates VI to right.

Reverse

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

Script: Greek

Lettering:
BAΣIΛEΩΣ
EYΠATOPOΣ
EΣ
A

Translation:
King Eupator
[year] 205
[month] 1

Mint

Pergamum, Mysia, modern-day Bergama, Turkey

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
205 (93 BC)							$ 3800					October 93 BC

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Picture 1 of the example of Tetradrachm - Mithridates VI Eupator (Pergamon; EΣ A)

Picture 2 of the example of Tetradrachm - Mithridates VI Eupator (Pergamon; EΣ A)

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, France 7, Paphlagonie, Pont et Arménie mineure n° 792; Waddington 119

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Past sales

Pictures	Sale	Date	Grade	Sold price
	Multiple sales of the same specimen: Numismatica Ars Classica Autumn Sale 2025 Lot 2317	9 Nov 2025	VF	USD 4741.16 (CHF 3750.00) (+ buyer's premium)
© Numismatica Ars Classica NAC AG
	CNG Auction 115 Lot 164	16 Sep 2020	VF	USD 2750.00 (+ buyer's premium)
Ex Spink Numismatic Circular XCIII.6 (July/August 1985), no. 4722
© Classical Numismatic Group, Inc.
	Multiple sales of the same specimen: CNG Triton XXVIII Lot 5117	14 Jan 2025	VF	USD 3750.00 (+ buyer's premium)
© Classical Numismatic Group, Inc.
	Bolaffi Auction 35 Lot 30	28 Nov 2019	VF	USD 1741.97 (EUR 1500.00) (+ buyer's premium)
© Bolaffi S.p.A.
	Gorny & Mosch Auction 147 Lot 1434	7 Mar 2006	VF	USD 1103.25 (EUR 950.00) (+ buyer's premium)
© Gorny & Mosch GmbH Giessener Münzhandlung