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bpv_231026 - KINGDOM OF PONTUS - POLEMON II and NERO Drachme

KINGDOM OF PONTUS - POLEMON II and NERO Drachme AU
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Price : 195.00 €
Type : Drachme
Date: an 20
Mint name / Town : Nicomédie, Bithynie
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 950 ‰
Diameter : 17 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,28 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan, décentré au revers sur le portrait de Néron. Portraits de haut relief taillés à la serpe. Patine noire
Catalogue references :
BMC.7  - RPC.3832

Obverse

Obverse description : Tête diadémée de Polémon II à droite (O’).
Obverse legend : BASILEWS POLEMWNOS, (Basilews Polemonos).
Obverse translation : (Polémon Roi).

Reverse

Reverse description : Tête laurée de Néron à droite (O*).
Reverse legend : ETOUS K, (Etous K).
Reverse translation : (vingtième année).

Commentary

Rubans de type 3 pour les deux portraits.

Historical background

KINGDOM OF PONTUS - POLEMON II and NERO

It was Marc Antoine who reconstituted part of the Kingdom of Pontus of Mithridates VI (120-63 BC) for the benefit of Polemon I in 36 BC. Octave confirmed his possessions to him in 30 BC. He married Dynamis, the daughter of Mithridates VI of Pontus, widow of Asander (47-17 BC), king of the Bosphorus. It was finally Pythodoris, another wife of Polemon I, who succeeded her in 8 BC. Then it was Antonia Tryphænea, daughter of Polemon I, who succeeded her mother in 22. From 38, she associated her son Polemon II with the throne. Antonia died in 49. Polemon also received the kingdom of the Bosphorus from Caligula. In 64, Nero had Polemon deposed, who retired to Cilicia. His kingdom became a Roman province.

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