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Æ16 - Prusias II
| Issuer | Kings of Bithynia |
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| Year | 182 BC - 149 BC |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Reverse description | Standing figure of Herakles facing slightly left, nude, with head turned to the left. The hero's right hand rests upon a grounded club set before him, while his left hand holds the skin of the Nemean Lion. The Greek legend ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ runs downward along the right field and ΠΡΟΥΣΙΟΥ downward along the left field, together reading 'King Prusias.' A control monogram appears in the lower inner right field. |
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| Mintage | ND (182 BC - 149 BC) |
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Prusias II earned the epithet "Cynégète" — the Hunter — and spent much of his reign attempting to balance dangerously between Rome and Perseus of Macedon during the Third Macedonian War. He backed Rome when it became clear which way the wind was blowing, then pushed his luck by attacking Pergamon without Roman sanction. That aggression ultimately cost him his throne and his life: he was murdered in 149 BC by his own son, Nicomedes II, with probable Pergamene and Roman complicity.
Recueil 25 places this issue early in the series, before the political crises of his later reign compressed Bithynian minting activity considerably.