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Obolos 31

21 April 2024
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Starting Price: 50 CHF
Hammer Price:  80 CHF
Lot 203

PONTOS. Amisos. Time of Mithradates VI Eupator, circa 85-65 BC. (Bronze, 21 mm, 8.70 g, 11 h). Head of young Dionysos to right, wearing ivy wreath. Rev. ΑΜΙΣΟΥ Panther skin and thyrsos on cista mystica. HGC 7, 243. Malloy 26a. SNG BM Black Sea 1199-1200. About extremely fine.



In his study 'The Coinage of Amisus', Malloy described the rendering of Dionysos on the obverse as 'bearing a resemblance to Mithradates Eupater'.

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