Live auction - bgr_612448 - PONTUS - PONTIC KINGDOM - MITHRIDATES VI THE GREAT Tétradrachme
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| Estimate : | 3 800 € |
| Price : | 2 400 € |
| Maximum bid : | 4 100 € |
| End of the sale : | 08 September 2020 14:25:27 |
| bidders : | 2 bidders |
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: an 212, mois 11 (août)
Mint name / Town : Amisos, Pont
Metal : silver
Diameter : 31,5 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 16,81 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Très bel exemplaire, bien centré des deux côtés. Petits coups sur la tranche à 2h et à 9h. Très belle tête idéalisée de Mithridate VI ainsi qu’un agréable revers. Patine grise de collection
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête diadémée de Mithridate VI à droite (idéalisée).
Reverse
Reverse description : Cerf 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 - D / (SRK).
Reverse translation : (du roi Mithridate d’un père illustre).
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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