Drachm - Mithridates VI Panticapaeum

Mithridates VI of Pontus absorbed the Bosporan Kingdom around 115–110 BC after the death of Parisades V, who reportedly ceded control rather than face a Scythian threat he could not manage alone. Panticapaeum, as the kingdom's principal mint city on the Crimean coast, immediately began producing coinage under Pontic authority — this drachm belongs to that transitional consolidation period, when Mithridates was simultaneously building the Black Sea empire that would eventually bring him into catastrophic conflict with Rome.