Armenia Minor functioned as a client buffer zone between the Seleucid sphere and the expanding Pontic kingdom during this decade, and its coinage reflects that awkward political position. Mithridates — almost certainly Mithridates of Cius's dynastic line — was minting bronze in his own name at a moment when autonomous coinage in the region was more assertion than convenience. Kovacs 295 is among the scarcer Armenian Minor bronzes, with relatively few examples documented in major collections.
Armenia Minor functioned as a client buffer zone between the Seleucid sphere and the expanding Pontic kingdom during this decade, and its coinage reflects that awkward political position. Mithridates — almost certainly Mithridates of Cius's dynastic line — was minting bronze in his own name at a moment when autonomous coinage in the region was more assertion than convenience. Kovacs 295 is among the scarcer Armenian Minor bronzes, with relatively few examples documented in major collections.