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v18_0096 - PONTUS - PONTIC KINGDOM - MITHRIDATES VI THE GREAT Tétradrachme

PONTUS - PONTIC KINGDOM - MITHRIDATES VI THE GREAT Tétradrachme AU
MONNAIES 18 (2003)
Starting price : 1 500.00 €
Estimate : 2 800.00 €
Realised price : 1 500.00 €
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: an 212
Metal : silver
Diameter : 28,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 16,87 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Très beau portrait réaliste. Jolie patine de médaillier. A été légèrement nettoyé anciennement. Joli revers, parfaitement centré
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient d’une vieille collection des années 30

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête diadémée de Mithridate VI à droite.

Reverse


Reverse description : Pégase paissant à gauche entre un croissant de lune surmonté d'un astre (soleil) ; de chaque côté, un monogramme ; le tout, dans une couronne de lierre.
Reverse legend : BASILEWS/ MIQRADATOU// EUPATOROS// BIS/ QPR/ MARK/ I

Commentary


Dans le Receuil Général, il n’y avait qu’un seul exemplaire répertorié, provenant de la collection du Grand duc Michailovitch (16,63 g). Même coin de droit que l’exemplaire du Recueil Général (pl. 2, n° 10).

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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