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PONTIC KINGDOM
Mithradates Eupator, "the Great"  - 120-63 B.C.
Silver Tetradrachm  (31.5mm, 16.83gm.) Pontic Kingdom,  69/68 B.C.
Reference: De Callatay S. 22 D75-R2b  (this coin!).
Diademed head of Mithridates VI right.
BAΣIΛEΩΣ MIΘPAΔATOY EYΠATOPOΣ, Pegasus grazing left; flanjed by two monograms,  ΗΚΣ year (year = 229) and crescent.  Around ivy-wreath with leaves and berries.

 
Pedigree: Ex Schulten auction 2.-4 June 1982, Frankfurt, 175; ex G.Hirsch  75, 1971, the 164th.