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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Hellenistic Monarchies| > |Kingdom of Bithynia| > SH86269
Kingdom of Bithynia, Nicomedes III Euergetes, 128 - 94 B.C.
|Kingdom| |of| |Bithynia|, |Kingdom| |of| |Bithynia,| |Nicomedes| |III| |Euergetes,| |128| |-| |94| |B.C.|, Nicomedes III Euergetes was the king of Bithynia, c. 127 - 94 B.C. When Nicomedes III was asked to provide troops for Roman Statesman Gaius Marius' war on the Cimbri and Teutones in transalpine Gaul in 104 B.C. he turned down the request declaring: "All those eligible for military service in my kingdom have been robbed by the Roman tax-farmers and sold into slavery."
SH86269. Silver tetradrachm, Callataÿ (D55/R1); Rec Gén I.2 p. 230; HGC 6 642; Cohen DCA 444; cf. BMC Pontus, p. 213, 8 (year 183); SNG Cop 648 (year 181); SNGvA 6896 (year 185), gVF, toned, die wear, bumps, scratches, tiny flan flaw obverse right, small edge chip/crack 12:00, Nikomedia (Izmit, Turkey) mint, weight 16.377g, maximum diameter 36.5mm, die axis 0o, 115 B.C.; obverse diademed head of Nicomedes right; reverse BAΣIΛEΩΣ EΠIΦANOYΣ NIKOMHΔOY, Zeus standing left, raising wreath in extended right hand, long scepter vertical in left hand, in inner left field eagle on thunderbolt over monogram over date ΔΠP (year 184); ex A. Caillat; SOLD










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