Art Institute of Chicago
Tetradrachm (Coin) Portraying King Mithridates VI
Greek; Kingdom of Pontus (now northern Turkey)
- Date
- 90-89 BCE, reign of Mithradates VI of Pontus and Bithynia (120–63 BCE)
- Medium
- Silver
- Culture
- Greece
- Department
- Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
The front of this coin portrays King Mithradates, wearing a diadem and facing right. The back depicts the winged horse Pegasus surrounded by an as yet untranslated inscription.
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