Gold Stater - Ancient Greece, (Kings of Pontos), c. 120-63 BC
Ruler: Mithradates VI
Obv: Diademed head of deified Alexander the Great, right.
Rev: Athena with Victory seated, left.
Mint: Tomis, struck 88-86 BC (1st Mithradatic War Issue) - in the name & type of Lysimachos of Thrace
Callatay p 141 - 21mm, 8.32gm
Mithradates VI also known as Mithradates the Great (Megas) and Eupator Dionysius, was king of Pontus and Armenia Minor in northern Anatolia (now Turkey). Mithridates is remembered as one of the Roman Republic’s most formidable and successful enemies, who engaged three of the prominent generals from the late Roman Republic in the Mithridatic Wars: Lucius Cornelius Sulla, Lucius Licinius Lucullus and Gnaeus Pompey Magnus. He is often considered the greatest ruler of the Kingdom of Pontus.
