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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;NewStyleKing, post: 4091603, member: 106483&quot;]Theme: A king of Bithynia. </p><p>This one is dated 88/7 so is Nicomedes lV whilst he had be supplanted by Socrates Christo a friend of...Mithradates Vl and was in Rome pleading for his country back. Obviously there must have been a unconquered loyal city for this coin to be minted in.&nbsp; He was the &quot;friend&quot; referred to by the critics of Julius Caesar when he stayed a little too long in his company.</p><p>All these coins have the titles of Nicomedes ll and portrait, some are a bit weird like this!</p><p>Anyway when he died he did a mad Attalus and &quot;gave&quot; his country to Rome, precipitating the 3rd and final Mithradatic war.</p><p><img src="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/23982/BOTH_BITY_2~0.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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