Tetradrachm - Mithridates VI Eupator Pergamon

Features

Issuer	Kings of Pontos
King	Mithridates VI (Μιθριδάτης Εὐπάτωρ) (120 BC - 63 BC)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Years	97 BC - 96 BC
Value	Tetradrachm (4)
Currency	Attic drachm
Composition	Silver
Weight	16.15 g
Diameter	33 mm
Shape	Round (irregular)
Technique	Hammered
Orientation	Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 581831
References	SNG BM Black Sea# 1029 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. , BMC Greek# 4 British Museum (publisher). A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum. British Museum, London, United Kingdom (28 volumes). , SNG France# 785-787 Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum France (8 volumes). , de Luynes# 2395 Jean Babelon, Louis Ciani (ed.), Jules Florange (ed.). Catalogue de la collection de Luynes - monnaies grecques. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France (4 volumes). , Gulbenkian# 936 Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (publisher). A Catalogue of the Calouste Gulbenkian Collection of Greek Coins. Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal (2 volumes). , Jameson# 2155 Robert Jameson. Collection R. Jameson. Feuardent, Paris, France (4 volumes). , Hunterian# 2 George MacDonald. Catalogue of Greek coins in the Hunterian collection, University of Glasgow. James Maclehose and Sons, Glasgow, United Kingdom (3 volumes). , Bement Cabinet# 235 Clarence S. Bement, Thomas Louis Comparette; 1921. A descriptive catalogue of Greek coins selected from the cabinet of Clarence S. Bement, esq. American Numismatic Society, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. , Waddington# 117 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. , SNG Fitzwilliam# 4054 Fritz Heichelheim. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Volume IV - The Fitzwilliam Collection. Oxford University Press, London, United Kingdom (8 volumes).

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Obverse

Diademed head of Mithradates VI to right.

Reverse

Pegasos grazing left; BAΣIΛEΩΣ above, MIΘPAΔATOY/EYΠATOPOΣ in two lines below; star-in-crescent to left, monogram to right; all within Dionysiac wreath of ivy and fruit.

Script: Greek

Lettering:
BAΣIΛEΩΣ
MIΘPAΔATOY
EYΠATOPOΣ

Translation: King Mithridates Eupator

Mint

Pergamum, Mysia, modern-day Bergama, Turkey

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
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ND (97 BC - 96 BC)								$ 5500

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Past sales

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	Multiple sales of the same specimen: Leu Numismatik Web Auction 30 Lot 637	13 Jul 2024	XF	USD 3046.74 (CHF 2400.00) (+ buyer's premium)
© Leu Numismatik
	CNG Triton XXIV Lot 545	19 Jan 2021	XF	USD 5500.00 (+ buyer's premium)
Ex Cederlind 138 (23 March 2006), lot 70
© Classical Numismatic Group, Inc.
	CNG Triton XXI Lot 438	9 Jan 2018	XF	USD 5500.00 (+ buyer's premium)
Ex Freeman & Sear FPL 1 (Winter/Spring 1994), no. 219; Galerie des Monnaies & Spink (10 October 1977), lot 217
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	Gorny & Mosch Auction 117 Lot 250	14 Oct 2002	XF	USD 2211.06 (EUR 1900.00) (+ buyer's premium)
Ex Lanz 28, 1984, Nr. 242
© Gorny & Mosch GmbH Giessener Münzhandlung
	Stacks Bowers August 2014 Chicago ANA Auction Lot 30097	5 Aug 2014	VF	USD 999.00 (+ buyer's premium)
© Stacks Bowers