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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1983.56.1
People
Mithradates VI Eupator, Greek (r. 120-63 BCE)
Title
Coin of Mithradates VI, Amisos?
Classification
Coins
Work Type
coin
Date
2nd-1st century BCE
Places
Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Asia, Pontus
Period
Hellenistic period
Culture
Hellenistic
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/186446

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Bronze
Metal
AE
Technique
Struck
Dimensions
20.31 g

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Purchased from Baldwin

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
K.V. Golenko, "Pontic Anonymous Copper," pp. 24-5, monogram no. 8 in Vestnik Drevnei Istorii, Moscow 1969 I, p. 130

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of H. Bartlett Wells, Class of 1929
Accession Year
1983
Object Number
1983.56.1
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Obv.: Head l., wearing tiara.
Rev.: Eight-rayed star; bow and arrow-head at either side.

Verification Level

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