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Didrachm - Mithridates VI Panticapaeum
| Issuer | Bosporan Kingdom |
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| Year | 90 BC - 79 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Edge | Plain |
| Mint | Panticapaeum |
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Mithridates VI of Pontus seized control of the Bosporan Kingdom around 110 BC after his ward Laodice — regent for the young king Parisades V — proved unable to hold the territory against Scythian pressure. The Bosporan coinage issued under his authority, including this didrachm from Panticapaeum, belongs to a period when Mithridates was simultaneously fighting Rome across Anatolia and the Aegean. The First Mithridatic War ended in 85 BC with the Peace of Dardanus; the years this piece spans fall across that settlement and into the uneasy interval before the Second.
Panticapaeum, the dominant mint city on the Cimmerian Bosporus, had a centuries-long coinage tradition before Mithridatic control formalized it into a provincial output serving Black Sea commerce and military pay.