PONTOS. MITHRIDATES VI

PONTOS. MITHRIDATES VI, 120-63 BC.

Silver AR Tetradrachm in the name of Alexander the Great, 16.60 g., 30 mm. Minted at Odessos, ca. 83-71 BC.

Obv. Mithridates, in the guise of Herakles, wearing the lion skin.

Rev. Zeus enthroned left, holding scepter and eagle, LAKO in left field, ODH in exergue.

Price 1193; Callatay Group 3, pl. XXVII, D5-R7a.

 area of flat strike on reverse, superb portrait of Mithridates, closely reminiscent of the marble bust in the Louvre.