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

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

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

Own a Coin from Pontus During Rome's Great Eastern Rivalry

A real NGC-certified bronze coin from Amisos, issued under the Kingdom of Pontus during the age of Mithridates VI Eupator and featuring the Greek god Ares.

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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 Ares, the Greek god of war
🏛 Issued at Amisos during the expansion of the Pontic kingdom under Mithridates VI
🤲 A genuine bronze coin from the era of the Mithridatic Wars

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Why This Coin Matters

Mithridates VI Eupator ruled Pontus from approximately 120 to 63 BC and became one of the Roman Republic's most formidable opponents.

During his reign, cities including Amisos produced extensive bronze coinages using familiar Greek religious and civic imagery. This type features Ares, the Greek god of war.

The martial imagery is especially evocative in the context of Mithridates' expansion and his later wars with Rome. It is reasonable to see such imagery as compatible with the militarized political world of the Pontic kingdom, but the coin itself does not tell us that Ares was selected specifically as a propaganda declaration against Rome.

Beginning in 89/88 BC, Mithridates fought Rome in the first of three conflicts collectively known as the Mithridatic Wars. Roman commanders including Sulla, Lucullus, and Pompey eventually confronted him over a struggle lasting decades.

Coins of Amisos circulated within the economic world shaped by that expansion, warfare, and Black Sea commerce. Their Greek imagery also reflects the deeply Hellenized culture of the Pontic kingdom.

This Ares bronze therefore offers a tangible connection to the age of Mithridates without requiring us to claim that every element of its iconography carried a specific anti-Roman message.