Æ20 - Mithradates VI Eupator
Features
| Issuer |
Pharnakeia
(Pontos)  |
|---|---|
| Type | Standard circulation coins |
| Years | 100 BC - 65 BC |
| Value | Tetrachalkon (1⁄12) |
| Currency | Drachm |
| Composition | Bronze |
| Weight | 8.95 g |
| Diameter | 19.7 mm |
| Shape | Round (irregular) |
| Technique | Hammered |
| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
| Demonetized | Yes |
| Number | N# 446083 |
| References | HGC 7# 297 Oliver D. Hoover; 2012. Handbook of Coins of Northern and Central Anatolia / Volume 7: Pontos, Paphlagonia, Bithynia, Phrygia, Galatia, Lykaonia, and Kappadokia (with Kolchis and the Kimmerian Bosporos): Fifth to First Centuries BC. Classical Numismatic Group, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States / London, United Kingdom.Martin Jessop Price; 1993. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum (Great Britain) / Volume 9.1. The British Museum. Part 1: The Black Sea. British Museum, London, United Kingdom. , SNG Copenhagen# 222 Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Royal Collection of Greek Coins. Danish National Museum. Copenhagen, Denmark (44 volumes). |
Obverse
Laureate head of Zeus, right.
Reverse
Legend beneath eagle standing front on thunderbolt, head right, wings spread, ΩAΠΡ monogram in upper left field.
Script: Greek
Lettering: ΦAΡNAKEIAΣ
Translation: Pharnakeia
Mint
Pharnaceia, Pontus, TurkeyComments
BMC 2;
SNG Cop 222-223;
RecGen 4;
Waddington 86;
SNG von Aulock 132 and 6099;
McClean 7387;
SNG Leipzig 1061;
Weber 4783;
BMC Black Sea 1276-1283.
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| Date | VG | F | VF | XF | AU | UNC | |||||||||
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| ND (100 BC - 65 BC) | |||||||||||||||
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