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bgr_715700 - BITHYNIA - BITHYNIAN KINGDOM - PRUSIAS II Unité
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Type : Unité
Date: c. 180-150 AC.
Mint name / Town : Nicomédie, Bithynie
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 6,18 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée présentant un joli centaure au revers. Patine vert foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Buste imberbe, juvénile et drapé de Dionysos (Bacchus) à droite, couronné de feuilles de vigne.
Reverse
Reverse description : Le Centaure Chiron à droite, la tête de face, jouant de la lyre, sa tunique flottant derrière.
Reverse legend : BASILEWS/ PROUSIOU.
Reverse translation : (du roi Prusias).
Historical background
BITHYNIA - BITHYNIAN KINGDOM - PRUSIAS II
(185-149 BC)
Prusias II is the son of Prusias I (228-185 BC), king of Bithynia and the grandson of Philip V of Macedonia by his mother. Hannibal had taken refuge in Nicomedia with his father. For fear of being delivered to the Romans by Prusias II, the Carthaginian poisoned himself in 183 BC. ). Prusias II had to give up part of his territory to the King of Pergamon. He tried to ally himself with the Romans and, in the face of such cowardice, was finally assassinated in the temple of Zeus in Nicomedia by the mob.
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