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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Hellenistic Monarchies| > |Pontic Kingdom| > GB84575
Pontic Kingdom, Mithradates VI Eupator the Great, c. 120 - 63 B.C., Anonymous Coinage
|Pontic| |Kingdom|, |Pontic| |Kingdom,| |Mithradates| |VI| |Eupator| |the| |Great,| |c.| |120| |-| |63| |B.C.,| |Anonymous| |Coinage|, Mithradates VI Megas (the Great) was king of Pontus in northern Anatolia from about 119 to 63 B.C. He was of both Greek and Persian origin, claiming descent from both Alexander the Great and King Darius I of Persia. Mithradates is remembered as one of Rome's most formidable and successful enemies, who engaged three of the most prominent generals of the late Roman Republic in the so-called Mithridatic Wars: Sulla, Lucullus, and Pompey the Great. After Mithradates VI was at last defeated by Pompey and in danger of capture by Rome, he attempted suicide. The poison failed because he had taken daily doses to build immunity. He then made his bodyguard and friend, Bituitus, kill him by the sword.
GB84575. Bronze AE 26, cf. HGC 7 310 (S), SNG Stancomb 649, SNG BM 973, SNG Cop 232 (all SNG refs. with same countermarks, none with this monogram), gF, dark patina, thick heavy flan as usual for the type, bumps and marks, light corrosion, uncertain (Amisos?) mint, weight 19.920g, maximum diameter 25.6mm, c. 119 - 100 B.C.; obverse male head left in a satrapal leather bashlik cap; countermarks: helmet in round punch, gorgoneion in round punch, fulmen (thunderbolt) in a rectangular punch; reverse comet star of eight rays, bow facing inward, monogram between rays; scarce; SOLD



  






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