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LOT 3138
Pontos, Amisos AE 20mm. Struck under Mithradates VI Eupator, circa 100-95 BC.
Wreathed head of Mithradates VI as young Dionysos to right / ΑΜΙΣΟΥ, panther skin and thyrsos on cista mystica; monogram of HTPK to left. Malloy 26c; HGC 7, 243. Good Very Fine.(7.96gr, 20mm, 12h.).
Provenance
From the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s.
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