Description: Pontos, Amisos, 85 - 65 BC. Head of Perseus right, with features of Mithradates VI / AMIΣOΥ; Pegasos left, grazing, two monograms below.

Diameter: AE24 mm

Weight: 12,6 g

Grade: aVF/aVF

Attribution: BMC Pontus p. 18, 60 ff.; SNG Cop 158 - 159

Commentary: green patina with some bronze patches, good details, well centered

History: Mithradates VI styled himself as Perseus on his coinage, because the legendary here was considered an intermediary between Persians and Greeks; Mithradates himself claiming his ancestry from both.

Article Number: 007-01-05-41652