Tetradrachm - Mithridates VI Eupator Pergamon

Features

Issuer Kings of Pontos
King Mithridates VI (Μιθριδάτης Εὐπάτωρ) (120 BC - 63 BC)
Type Standard circulation coin
Year 209 (88 BC)
Calendar Bosporan era
Value Tetradrachm (4)
Currency Drachm
Composition Silver
Weight 16.6 g
Diameter 30.0 mm
Shape Round (irregular)
Technique Hammered
Orientation Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
192178
References HGC 7# 338,
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 von Aulock 1 PPB# 7,
Gerhard Kleiner; 1957. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Deutschland / Hefte 1-3. Pontus, Paphlagonien, Bithynien : Sammlung von Aulock. Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin, Germany.
And 1 more volumes.
Dewing# 2121
Leo Mildenberg, Silvia Hurter; 1985. The Dewing Collection of Greek Coins. American Numismatic Society, New York, United States.

Obverse

Diademed head of Mithridates VI to right

Reverse

Pegasus grazing left; to left, star in crescent. To right, ΘΣ (date) above monogram and all within Dionysiac wreath of ivy and fruit

Script: Greek

Lettering:
BAΣIΛEΩΣ MIΘPAΔATOY EYΠATOPOΣ
ΘΣ

Translation: King Mithridates VI Eupator

Mint

Pergamum, Mysia, modern-day Bergama, Turkey

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
209 (88 BC)  ΘΣ

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