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<p>[QUOTE="Mike Margolis, post: 2993551, member: 88401"][ATTACH=full]739205[/ATTACH] One more glaring omission was <span style="color: #ff0000">MITHRADATES VI </span><span style="color: #000000">who also issued coins. He had to be at least as influential as those later Romans. Many Roman historians ignored writing anything positive about him and so he faded from history in a way unequal to his stature in those volatile tumultous years of the Roman Republic. He was born during the passage of a bright comet and used that as a claim to divine right as the first Caesars did. The same year he died 63 BCE maybe just days later AUGUSTUS Octavius was born. Like a hand-off of torch bearers! Another coin issuer who had a great impact on later history was Simon Bar Kochba who issued those beautiful rare and expensive coins and whose revolt against the mighty Roman empire ended in the worldwide diaspora of Jews. (Has there been a thread devoted to his coinage-MITHRADATES VI- here on CT?)</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/file:///C:/Users/Michael/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image002.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />Attribution: MacDonald 161</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">Date: 109-105 BC</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">Obverse: Tripod</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">Reverse: ΠANTIKAΠ, letters between the rays of a star</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">Size: 15.23mm</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">Weight: 3.27 grams</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">Description: VF. ex Alex Malloy with his un-named auction envelope. Pontic Kings of the Bosporus. Mithradates VI Eupator. Pantikapaion Æ Dichalkon / Star </span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"></span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Mike Margolis, post: 2993551, member: 88401"][ATTACH=full]739205[/ATTACH] One more glaring omission was [COLOR=#ff0000]MITHRADATES VI [/COLOR][COLOR=#000000]who also issued coins. He had to be at least as influential as those later Romans. Many Roman historians ignored writing anything positive about him and so he faded from history in a way unequal to his stature in those volatile tumultous years of the Roman Republic. He was born during the passage of a bright comet and used that as a claim to divine right as the first Caesars did. The same year he died 63 BCE maybe just days later AUGUSTUS Octavius was born. Like a hand-off of torch bearers! Another coin issuer who had a great impact on later history was Simon Bar Kochba who issued those beautiful rare and expensive coins and whose revolt against the mighty Roman empire ended in the worldwide diaspora of Jews. (Has there been a thread devoted to his coinage-MITHRADATES VI- here on CT?) [IMG]https://www.cointalk.com/file:///C:/Users/Michael/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image002.jpg[/IMG]Attribution: MacDonald 161[/COLOR] [COLOR=rgb(0, 0, 0)]Date: 109-105 BC Obverse: Tripod Reverse: ΠANTIKAΠ, letters between the rays of a star Size: 15.23mm Weight: 3.27 grams Description: VF. ex Alex Malloy with his un-named auction envelope. Pontic Kings of the Bosporus. Mithradates VI Eupator. Pantikapaion Æ Dichalkon / Star [/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000] [/COLOR][/QUOTE]
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