Pontus, Amisos. Time of Mithradates VI (120-63 BC). Æ Pegasos type (No reserve price)

Pontus, Amisos.
Time of Mithradates VI (120-63 BC).
Æ (Bronze, 23.6 mm, 11.28 g).
Pegasos type. Civic issue.

Obv: Head of Perseus right, wearing Phrygian helmet with griffin crest.
Rev: ΑΜΙΣΟΥ. Pegasos grazing left on ground line; legend below; monogram(s) in exergue.

Reference: Hoover, Handbook of Greek Coinage 7, 239.

Amisos, a Greek colony on the Black Sea coast, became one of the chief cities of the Pontic kingdom under Mithradates VI and struck large series of civic bronzes for him. Perseus and Pegasos evoked the hero from whom the king, through his Persian ancestry, claimed descent. During the Third Mithradatic War the Roman general Lucullus besieged Amisos and took it in 71 BC, much of the city burning in the fall. Rome later made Amisos a free city in its province of Pontus.

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