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Tetrachalkon - Orsobaris Musa Prusias ad Mare
| Issuer | Kings of Pontos |
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| Year | 30 BC - 22 BC |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Reverse lettering | ΠΡΟΥΣΙΕΩΝ ΤΩΝ ΠΡΟΣ ΘΑΛΑΣΣΗΙ (Translation: of the Prusians by the sea) |
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| Mintage | ND (30 BC - 22 BC) |
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Orsobaris Musa was a Pontic queen who ruled conjointly with her son Darius following the Roman reorganization of the region after Actium. The coinage issued in their joint names reflects a deliberate legitimizing strategy — anchoring a new, Rome-approved dynasty to the older Mithridatic bloodline while signaling submission to Augustan authority. Prusias ad Mare, the mint city, had been a functioning Greek polis since at least the third century BC and retained enough civic infrastructure to produce bronze for local circulation well into the imperial period.