Tetradrachm - Mithridates VI Eupator Pergamon; ΒΣ Θ

Features

Issuer	Kings of Pontos
King	Mithridates VI (Μιθριδάτης Εὐπάτωρ) (120 BC - 63 BC)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Year	202 (95 BC)
Calendar	Bosporan era
Value	Tetradrachm (4)
Currency	Attic drachm
Composition	Silver
Weight	16.77 g
Diameter	31 mm
Shape	Round (irregular)
Technique	Hammered
Orientation	Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 582602

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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, BΣ (year) above monogram; in exergue, Θ (month); all within Dionysiac wreath of ivy and fruit.

Script: Greek

Lettering:
BAΣIΛEΩΣ
MIΘPAΔATOY
EYΠATOPOΣ
BΣ
Θ

Translation:
King Mithridates Eupator
[year] 202
[month] 9

Mint

Pergamum, Mysia, modern-day Bergama, Turkey

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
202 (95 BC)												June 95 BC

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Past sales

Pictures	Sale	Date	Grade	Sold price
	Künker Auction 434 eLive Lot 8132	17 Nov 2025	VF	USD 3348.00 (EUR 2900.00) (+ buyer's premium)
Ex NFA XI, New York 1982, lot 146; from the Nelson Bunker Hunt Collection, Auction Sotheby's, New York, 19-20 June 1991, No. 297; Giessener Münzhandlung 100, Munich 1999, No. 158
© Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co. KG, Osnabrück and Lübke & Wiedemann KG, Leonberg