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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Hellenistic Monarchies| > |Pontic Kingdom| > SH98723
Pontic Kingdom, Mithradates VI, c. 120 - 63 B.C., In the Name and Types of Lysimachos
|Pontic| |Kingdom|, |Pontic| |Kingdom,| |Mithradates| |VI,| |c.| |120| |-| |63| |B.C.,| |In| |the| |Name| |and| |Types| |of| |Lysimachos|, Mithradates VI Eupator "the Great" expanded his Pontic Kingdom through conquest, which inevitably brought him into conflict with Rome. He regarded himself as the champion of the Greeks against Rome, however, after three years of war, he was defeated by Pompey the Great. The design of this coin is taken from a coin of Lysimachos, bodyguard of Alexander the Great, and King of Thrace, 323 - 281 B.C. The Lysimachos coin depicted Alexander the Great on the obverse. The features of the portrait on this type are those of Mithradates VI.
SH98723. Gold stater, Callataÿ p. 141, pl. 37 (D3/R1); AMNG I/II 2480; SNG Cop 1091 (Thrace); HGC 3.2 1931 (R1), gVF, struck with worn dies, tight flan, Tomis (Constanta, Romania) mint, weight 8.352g, maximum diameter 19.2mm, die axis 0o, First Mithradatic War, c. 88 - 86 B.C.; obverse diademed head of Alexander the Great right wearing the horn of Ammon; reverse Athena Nikephoros seated left, wearing crested helmet, Nike in extended right hand, resting left elbow on grounded round shield behind, BAΣIΛEΩΣ (king) downward on right, ΛYΣIMAXOY downward on left, ΘEM (magistrate) inner left, TO under throne, ornamented trident in exergue; ex Tauler & Fau auction 85 (25 May 2021), lot 7030; SOLD










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