★ Two Extremely Rare Staters of Mithradates Eupator ★

KINGS of PONTOS. Mithradates VI Eupator. Circa 120-63 BC. AV Stater (19.5mm, 8.41 g, 12h). Pergamon mint. Dated month 12, year 223 BE (September 74 BC). Diademed head right / Stag grazing left; BAΣIΛEΩΣ above, MIΘPAΔATOY/EYΠATOPOΣ in two lines below; to left, star-in-crescent above ΓKΣ (year); two monograms to right, IB (month) in exergue; all within Dionysiac wreath of ivy and fruit. Callataÿ Supp. fig. 1 and O12/R1 var. (month 13); cf. HGC 7, 335 (unlisted date); cf. DCA 691 (unlisted date); CNG 106, lot 292 (same obv. die); CNG 94, lot 399 (same obv. die); CNG 93, lot 339 (same dies); NAC 92, lot 184 (same obv. die); Roma XII, lot 356 = Roma VII, lot 757. Tiny mark at edge on reverse. Good VF. Extremely rare date, one of only six known.

From the Jonathan P. Rosen Collection.