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bgr_758420 - PONTUS - PONTIC KINGDOM - MITHRIDATES VI THE GREAT Tétradrachme

PONTUS - PONTIC KINGDOM - MITHRIDATES VI THE GREAT Tétradrachme AU
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Price : 2 500.00 €
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: 91 AC.
Mint name / Town : Amisos, Pont
Metal : silver
Diameter : 31,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 16,77 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie sur un flan idéalement centré des deux côtés. Très joli revers. Griffure au droit sur le portrait de Mithridate VI. Patine grise avec des reflets bleutés et dorés

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête diadémée de Mithridate VI à droite.

Reverse


Reverse description : Pégase paissant à gauche entre un croissant de lune surmonté d'un astre à six rais centré d’un globule (emblème luni-solaire) ; un monogramme dans le champ à droite ; le tout, dans une couronne de lierre (dionysiaque).
Reverse legend : BASILEWS/ MIQRADATOU// EUPATOROS//ES/ (ACKU) // Q.
Reverse translation : (du roi Mithridate d’un père illustre an 206) .

Historical background


PONTUS - PONTIC KINGDOM - MITHRIDATES VI THE GREAT

(120-63 BC)

When his father Mithridates V died, Mithridates VI was only eleven years old. Very quickly, however, he built up a vast empire in Asia Minor, came into conflict with the Romans and fought against the kingdoms of Bithynia and Cappadocia. In 88, he ordered the massacre of all the Romans and Italians of Asia Minor, the massacres of Ephesus, where more than 80,000 victims were counted. Mithridates then won Athens where he was archon, but his fleet failed before Rhodes. In 86 BC, after Sulla's recapture of Athens and the battles of Chaeronea and Orchomenus, Mithridates signed the Peace of Dardanus which ended the First Mithridatic War.

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