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A work made of silver.

Tetradrachm (Coin) Portraying King Mithridates VI

90-89 BCE, reign of Mithradates VI of Pontus and Bithynia (120–63 BCE)

Greek; Kingdom of Pontus (now northern Turkey)

Greece

The front of this coin portrays King Mithradates, wearing a diadem and facing right.

The back depicts the winged horse Pegasus surrounded by an as yet untranslated inscription.

Silver

Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium