CIMMERIAN BOSPOROS. Pantikapaion. Time of Mithridates VI Eupator, circa 79-65 BC. AE (Bronze, 25 mm, 18.26 g, 12 h), struck under Machares as governor (?). Head of youthful Dionysos to right, wearing ivy wreath and taenia. Rev. Bow in bow case; to left, monogram. HGC 7, 110. MacDonald 180/17. SNG BM Black Sea 946-8 var. (differing control). SNG Stancomb 597 var. (differing control). Minor roughness, otherwise, very fine.

From the Pontos Euxeinos Collection, formed in the late 1990s and early 2000s.