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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ancientnoob, post: 2133339, member: 44140&quot;]After another USPS fiasco this specimen was shipped in mid March and took over 30 days to arrive DOMESTIC!!!!</p><p><br /></p><p>After filing claims, aggravating a seller, getting annoyed with the USPS after declaring the item lost.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am relieved that the specimen finally showed up. (I plan on making an offering to Hermes and Tyche respectively.)</p><p><br /></p><p>This is an upgrade to a similar coin I sold to another CT member. The type is like most other Alexander the Great types except it differs in several interesting ways.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>From my previous write up on the coin type. (Price 1191 and 1193)</p><p><br /></p><p>Scholars agree that the bust is that of Mithridates VI of Pontos. These were minted in Odessos, Thrace sometime between 120-70 BC this particular coin was minted around 83/2 BC to finance the 2nd Mithratic war with Rome. These coins are believed to have been meant as payment to Macedonian and Thracian mercenaries. The 2MW ended in the retention of the Pontic Kingdom and the expulsion of the Romans from the Province of Asia. Mithridates VI would ultimately be defeated by Pompey the Great, and would ask for his friend to kill him by sword in order to evade capture and the resulting humiliation of a Roman triumph, concluding the third Mithratic War. He could not kill himself by poison, since he had given himself small doses of poison his whole life to guard against possible assassination.</p><p>For me I could not live without a Greek tetradrachm of one of the last Hellenistic Kings and the most successful to stand up to Roman Imperialism. A very cool and unique uber later Alexander type style coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Kingdom of Thrace and Pontus</p><p>Thrace, Odessos</p><p>Mithradates VI Eupator (Megas)</p><p>AR Tetradrachm (s.BC 83/2)</p><p>30 mm x 15.70 grams</p><p>Obv. Head of Mithradates VI as Alexander III as Hercules wearing Lionskin headdress right.</p><p>Rev. Zeus enthroned holding a Scepter and holding an Eagle out stretched. Greek script- BASILEWS / ALEXANDPOY. LAKW in left field. WDH in ex.</p><p>Ref. Price 1193</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]406546[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Last Tetradrachm in the name of Alexander.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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