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Amisos Ancient Greek Bronze Coin — Zeus under Mithradates VI (120–63 BC) — NGC Certified

Name: Amisos Ancient Greek Bronze Coin — Zeus under Mithradates VI (120–63 BC) — NGC Certified
Brand: Kinzer Coins
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Amisos Ancient Greek Bronze Coin — Zeus under Mithradates VI (120–63 BC) — NGC Certified

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Amisos Bronze with Zeus — Coinage from the Age of Mithridates VI

Own a Coin from the Pontic Kingdom That Challenged Rome

A real NGC-certified bronze coin from Amisos, issued during the age of Mithridates VI Eupator and featuring Zeus.

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📷 Coins shown are representative examples. You will receive one authentic NGC-certified bronze coin of this Amisos type. Each coin is unique and will vary in grade, strike, centering, patina, and overall appearance.

⚡ Features Zeus, supreme deity of the Greek pantheon
🏛 Issued in the Hellenized Black Sea world under the Kingdom of Pontus
🤲 A genuine bronze coin associated with the age of Mithridates VI

Own This Piece of History

Why This Coin Matters

Mithridates VI Eupator ruled Pontus from approximately 120 to 63 BC and transformed the kingdom into a major power around the Black Sea.

Coins issued at cities such as Amisos used a rich vocabulary of Greek gods and symbols. Zeus naturally carried associations with divine supremacy, authority, and order throughout the Greek world.

Those associations make the type historically meaningful, but the imagery should not be presented as direct evidence that Mithridates was personally 'claiming the authority of Zeus against Rome.' The precise political intention behind an individual civic bronze type is rarely recoverable with that degree of certainty.

Mithridates nevertheless did cultivate a sophisticated royal image combining Greek and Persian traditions, and his confrontation with Rome became one of the defining struggles of the late Hellenistic world.

Beginning in 89/88 BC, he fought Rome through the Three Mithridatic Wars. Commanders including Sulla, Lucullus, and Pompey eventually led Roman forces against him before his final defeat in 63 BC.

This bronze is a genuine product of that Pontic world and an accessible connection to one of the last great Hellenistic kingdoms to resist Roman expansion.