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

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

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

Own a Coin from the Hellenistic Kingdom That Challenged Rome

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

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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 Dionysus, one of the most recognizable gods of the Greek world
🏛 Issued at Amisos under the Pontic kingdom during the Mithridatic era
🤲 A genuine Hellenistic bronze from the Black Sea world

Own This Piece of History

Why This Coin Matters

Mithridates VI Eupator, king of Pontus from approximately 120 to 63 BC, built a powerful Black Sea kingdom and eventually fought three major wars against the Roman Republic.

During this period, Amisos produced large quantities of bronze coinage featuring Greek gods and symbols. This type uses Dionysiac imagery, reflecting the city's participation in the wider religious and artistic traditions of the Hellenistic Greek world.

Dionysus could carry associations with wine, fertility, theater, vitality, and divine power. Mithridates also cultivated a strongly Hellenic public image. But it goes beyond the evidence to claim that this particular type was deliberately designed to 'unite the Greek world' or that every user would have read it as an explicit anti-Roman political declaration.

The historical setting remains extraordinary without that certainty. Beginning in 89/88 BC, Mithridates confronted Rome in the first of the Three Mithridatic Wars. His struggle eventually involved commanders including Sulla, Lucullus, and Pompey and reshaped the political order of Asia Minor and the Black Sea region.

This bronze belongs to that Pontic monetary world: Greek in imagery, produced at Amisos, and associated with one of Rome's most formidable eastern rivals.