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<p>[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 3626219, member: 99456"]<a href="https://archive.org/details/arsacidarumimper02foyv/page/64" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://archive.org/details/arsacidarumimper02foyv/page/64" rel="nofollow">[ATTACH=full]972446[/ATTACH]</a>Continuing from <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/sulla-marius-and-an-anonymous-denarius.342595/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/sulla-marius-and-an-anonymous-denarius.342595/">my last thread</a>, Sulla went off to fight Mithridates after damaging the Roman republic with his attack on Rome and the senate. He reclaimed from Marius the right to lead Roman legions against Rome's formidable ememy: Mithridates.</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="3"><i>Mithridates, king of Pontus, seized Asia and put to death all Roman citizens in it. He was a man about whom one cannot speak except with concern nor yet pass by in silence; he was ever eager for war, of exceptional bravery, always great in spirit and sometimes in achievement, in strategy a general, in bodily prowess a soldier, in hatred to the Romans a Hannibal.</i></font></p><p><i><font size="3"><a href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Velleius_Paterculus/2A*.html#18.1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Velleius_Paterculus/2A*.html#18.1" rel="nofollow">-Velleius</a> writing from a later perspective during the time of Augustus</font></i></p><p><br /></p><p>Here are two non-Roman coins and one Roman Republican coin from relevant leaders of this time.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]972371[/ATTACH]</p><p><font size="4">Pontos, Amisos <b>Mithradates VI</b>, Circa 120-63 BC, Æ 23mm</font></p><p><font size="4"><b>Obv:</b> Head of Mithradates VI, as Perseus, right</font></p><p><font size="4"><b>Rev:</b> Pegasos standing left, drinking; AMISOU, monogram below</font></p><p><br /></p><p>While Sulla was fighting to the east, Marius returned to Rome - taking control of Rome with Cinna and exiling Sulla. This was not an easy period for the citizens of Rome:</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="3"><i>“Then Gaius Marius entered the city, and his return was fraught with calamity for the citizens. No victory would ever have exceeded his in cruelty had Sulla's not followed soon afterwards.”</i></font></p><p><font size="3"><a href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Velleius_Paterculus/2A*.html#22.1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Velleius_Paterculus/2A*.html#22.1" rel="nofollow">-Velleius</a></font></p><p><br /></p><p>Despite being seriously outnumbered, Sulla won several important victories against the Pontic armies. Impatient to get back to Rome, he agreed a treaty with Mithridates that would allow the conflict with Mithridates to resume in a short period of time:</p><p><br /></p><p><i><font size="3">"...terms of agreement were made as follows: Mithridates was to renounce Asia and Paphlagonia, restore Bithynia to Nicomedes and Cappadocia to Ariobarzanes, pay down to the Romans two thousand talents, and give them seventy bronze-armoured ships with their proper equipment; Sulla, on his part, was to confirm Mithridates in the rest of his dominions, and get him voted an ally of the Romans."</font></i></p><p><i><font size="3">-<a href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Sulla*.html#22" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Sulla*.html#22" rel="nofollow">Plutarch Life of Sulla 22</a></font></i></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]972385[/ATTACH]</p><p><font size="4">Kings of Cappadocia,<b> Ariobarzanes I</b>, Philoromaios AR Drachm, 84/83 BC</font></p><p><font size="4"><b>Obv:</b> Diademed head right.</font></p><p><font size="4"><b>Rev:</b> BAΣIΛEΩΣ APIOBAPZANOY ΦIΛOPΩMAIOY/ IΓ, Athena standing left, holding shield, spear and Nike.</font></p><p><br /></p><p>Marius didn’t last long in his seventh consulship, as he was overcome by illness and died a few weeks in, on January 13th, 86 BC at the age of 70. <a href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Marius*.html#45.2" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Marius*.html#45.2" rel="nofollow">Plutarch writes</a> that some claimed Marius fell ill from sleepless nights, and drinking to combat his anxiety that Sulla was coming back to Rome. Others claim that on his deathbed he still lamented the ambitions he had yet to achieve. His son Marius the Younger would be consul by the time Sulla returned to Rome.</p><p><br /></p><p>An L. Valerius Flaccus completed Marius' term as consul in 86 BC. He was the cousin of the older L. Valerius Flaccus who minted this RR coin in 108-107 BC and who had been consul in 100 BC.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]972397[/ATTACH]</p><p><font size="4"><b>L. Valerius Flaccus</b>, AR Denarius</font></p><p><font size="4">Rome, 108-107 BC</font></p><p><font size="4"><b>Obv:</b> Draped bust of Victory right; below chin, XVI monogram </font></p><p><font size="4"><b>Rev:</b> Mars advancing left, holding spear and trophy; apex before, grain ear behind, L VALERI - FLACCI in two lines downward in left field. </font></p><p><font size="4"><b>Ref: </b>Crawford 306/1; RSC Valeria 11</font></p><p><br /></p><p>This older L. Valerius Flaccus would also play a key role in the return of Sulla, proposing his appointment as dictator. Before then there would many more battles in which the younger L. Valerius Flaccus and consuls from the next years would be killed.</p><p><br /></p><p>Additions, corrections and commentary are always appreciated. <b> Share your coins, non-Roman or Roman, from leaders during the first Mithridatic war or anything else you find interesting.</b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 3626219, member: 99456"][URL='https://archive.org/details/arsacidarumimper02foyv/page/64'][ATTACH=full]972446[/ATTACH][/URL]Continuing from [URL='https://www.cointalk.com/threads/sulla-marius-and-an-anonymous-denarius.342595/']my last thread[/URL], Sulla went off to fight Mithridates after damaging the Roman republic with his attack on Rome and the senate. He reclaimed from Marius the right to lead Roman legions against Rome's formidable ememy: Mithridates. [SIZE=3][I]Mithridates, king of Pontus, seized Asia and put to death all Roman citizens in it. He was a man about whom one cannot speak except with concern nor yet pass by in silence; he was ever eager for war, of exceptional bravery, always great in spirit and sometimes in achievement, in strategy a general, in bodily prowess a soldier, in hatred to the Romans a Hannibal.[/I][/SIZE] [I][SIZE=3][URL='http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Velleius_Paterculus/2A*.html#18.1']-Velleius[/URL] writing from a later perspective during the time of Augustus[/SIZE][/I] Here are two non-Roman coins and one Roman Republican coin from relevant leaders of this time. [ATTACH=full]972371[/ATTACH] [SIZE=4]Pontos, Amisos [B]Mithradates VI[/B], Circa 120-63 BC, Æ 23mm [B]Obv:[/B] Head of Mithradates VI, as Perseus, right [B]Rev:[/B] Pegasos standing left, drinking; AMISOU, monogram below[/SIZE] While Sulla was fighting to the east, Marius returned to Rome - taking control of Rome with Cinna and exiling Sulla. This was not an easy period for the citizens of Rome: [SIZE=3][I]“Then Gaius Marius entered the city, and his return was fraught with calamity for the citizens. No victory would ever have exceeded his in cruelty had Sulla's not followed soon afterwards.”[/I] [URL='http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Velleius_Paterculus/2A*.html#22.1']-Velleius[/URL][/SIZE] Despite being seriously outnumbered, Sulla won several important victories against the Pontic armies. Impatient to get back to Rome, he agreed a treaty with Mithridates that would allow the conflict with Mithridates to resume in a short period of time: [I][SIZE=3]"...terms of agreement were made as follows: Mithridates was to renounce Asia and Paphlagonia, restore Bithynia to Nicomedes and Cappadocia to Ariobarzanes, pay down to the Romans two thousand talents, and give them seventy bronze-armoured ships with their proper equipment; Sulla, on his part, was to confirm Mithridates in the rest of his dominions, and get him voted an ally of the Romans." -[URL='http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Sulla*.html#22']Plutarch Life of Sulla 22[/URL][/SIZE][/I] [ATTACH=full]972385[/ATTACH] [SIZE=4]Kings of Cappadocia,[B] Ariobarzanes I[/B], Philoromaios AR Drachm, 84/83 BC [B]Obv:[/B] Diademed head right. [B]Rev:[/B] BAΣIΛEΩΣ APIOBAPZANOY ΦIΛOPΩMAIOY/ IΓ, Athena standing left, holding shield, spear and Nike.[/SIZE] Marius didn’t last long in his seventh consulship, as he was overcome by illness and died a few weeks in, on January 13th, 86 BC at the age of 70. [URL='http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Marius*.html#45.2']Plutarch writes[/URL] that some claimed Marius fell ill from sleepless nights, and drinking to combat his anxiety that Sulla was coming back to Rome. Others claim that on his deathbed he still lamented the ambitions he had yet to achieve. His son Marius the Younger would be consul by the time Sulla returned to Rome. An L. Valerius Flaccus completed Marius' term as consul in 86 BC. He was the cousin of the older L. Valerius Flaccus who minted this RR coin in 108-107 BC and who had been consul in 100 BC. [ATTACH=full]972397[/ATTACH] [SIZE=4][B]L. Valerius Flaccus[/B], AR Denarius Rome, 108-107 BC [B]Obv:[/B] Draped bust of Victory right; below chin, XVI monogram [B]Rev:[/B] Mars advancing left, holding spear and trophy; apex before, grain ear behind, L VALERI - FLACCI in two lines downward in left field. [B]Ref: [/B]Crawford 306/1; RSC Valeria 11[/SIZE] This older L. Valerius Flaccus would also play a key role in the return of Sulla, proposing his appointment as dictator. Before then there would many more battles in which the younger L. Valerius Flaccus and consuls from the next years would be killed. Additions, corrections and commentary are always appreciated. [B] Share your coins, non-Roman or Roman, from leaders during the first Mithridatic war or anything else you find interesting.[/B][/QUOTE]
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