Chalkos - Mithridates VI Eupator

Features

Issuer Kings of Pontos
King Mithridates VI (Μιθριδάτης Εὐπάτωρ) (120 BC - 63 BC)
Type Standard circulation coin
Years 105 BC - 90 BC
Value 1 Chalkos
Currency Drachm
Composition Bronze
Weight 1.5 g
Diameter 13 mm
Shape Round (irregular)
Technique Hammered
Orientation Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
125554
References HGC 7# 206,
Oliver D. Hoover; 2012. The Handbook of Greek Coinage Series / Volume 7. Handbook of Coins of Northern and Central Anatolia, Pontos, Paphlagonia, Bithynia, Phrygia, Galatia, Lykaonia, and Kappadokia (with Kolchis and the Kimmerian Bosporos) : Fifth to First Centuries BC. Classical Numismatic Group, Lancaster, Pennsylvania - London, United Kingdom.
SNG BM Black Sea# 1021var
Martin Jessop Price; 1993. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum (Great Britain) / Volume 9.1. The British Museum. Part 1 : The Black Sea. British Museum Press, London, United Kingdom.

Obverse

Helmets of twin brothers Dioskuri (Kastor and Polydeuces) with 6 -pointed stars above each.

Reverse

Greek lettering from left and right of thyrsos.

Script: Greek

Lettering:
ΔI–OΣ
KOY–ΡIA
Δ–OΣ

Translation: Dioskuria

Mint

Dioscurias, Colchis, modern-day Sochumi, Abkhazia

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
ND (105 BC - 90 BC) 

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