1983.56.1: Coin of Mithradates VI, Amisos?
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1983.56.1
- People
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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
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
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Obv.: Head l., wearing tiara.
Rev.: Eight-rayed star; bow and arrow-head at either side.
Verification Level
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