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LOT 3137
Pontos, Amisos AE 21mm. Time of Mithradates VI Eupator, 120-63 BC.
Head of Dionysos to right, wearing ivy wreath / AMIΣOY, thyrsos leaning against cista mystica, draped with panther skin. SNG BM Black Sea 1200; HGC 7, 243. Very Fine.(8.36gr, 21mm, 11h.).
Provenance
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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