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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mikey Zee, post: 2946046, member: 72818&quot;]As always, [USER=57495]@zumbly[/USER]&#039;&nbsp; all of your coins display substantial eye-appeal...and very interesting devices!!</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a few probable &#039;stragglers&#039; still pending but I wont know for sure until a few more days....</p><p><br /></p><p>So, here&#039;s two I recently purchased and just posted once or twice as a &#039;pile on&#039; in other threads----one is a Stevex6 purchase that looks fantastic in hand and another from A-Noob that also appears better in hand:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Obverse : Head of Poseidon right, wearing oak wreath; monogram to left.</p><p>Reverse : Artemis, holding bow, seated left on prow; dolphin left; star surmounting akrostolion; two monograms right.</p><p>Date : circa 168-120 BC</p><p>Diameter : 18.66 mm</p><p>Weight : 4.20 g</p><p>References :BCD Thessaly II 415.2 </p><p>Notes : Ex BCD Collection (CNG 395, 12 April 2017), lot 78</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]718495[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></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>[ATTACH=full]718496[/ATTACH] </p><p>Quote from a similar coin at auction......</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Mithridates of Pontus VI (r. 120–63 B.C.) was the last of the Hellenistic kings to fend off the encroaching Romans. He issued this coin during his temporarily successful military campaign to free Greece from Roman rule. Like others before him, Mithridates purposely adopted the tousled hair and fierce gaze of the young Macedonian king. However, at the time this coin was struck, Mithridates was about 50 years old, demonstrating that well over two centuries after Alexander’s death, his portrait was still the archetypal image for kings.&#039;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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