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The Pontic Kingdom’s gold stater, struck 120–63 BC for Mithradates VI Eupator, pulses with the thunder of his three wars against Rome. This 8.4-gram masterpiece—graded Mint State by NGC Ancients—gleams with untouched luster, its fields mirror-smooth and devices razor-sharp. Minted in the Black Sea ports, it bankrolled fleets, mercenaries, and the dream of a Hellenistic empire reborn.
The obverse crowns Mithradates in heroic profile, facing right. Thick, wavy locks spill from beneath a broad diadem whose ends flutter like battle standards behind his neck. His brow is high, the nose boldly aquiline, lips parted in a calm yet defiant half-smile. The eye—deeply cut and almond-shaped—burns with the gaze of a king who styled himself the new Alexander, liberator of Asia.
Every curl, every fold of royal ribbon, rises in crisp relief, untouched by circulation. The portrait is not mere likeness but propaganda in gold: a youthful god-king daring Rome to blink first. This stater, frozen in perfection, still whispers the roar of Pontic trumpets across two millennia.
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