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Tetradrachm - Pharnaces I Sinope
| Issuer | Kings of Pontos |
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| Year | 196 BC - 155 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Reverse description | A syncretic pantheistic male deity stands facing on the reverse, his head turned slightly, wearing a flat kausia-style hat surmounted by a thunderbolt, emblematic of his composite divine identity combining attributes of Zeus, Hermes, and Dionysos. In his left hand he holds a cornucopiae and a kerykeion (herald's staff), symbols of prosperity and divine messenger authority, while his right hand extends forward offering a vine branch to a fawn standing to his right. In the inner left field appears the star-in-crescent, the distinctive Pontic royal badge, and in the inner right field a monogram of ΠAΣ, likely referencing the mint or magistrate. The Greek royal legend BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΦAPNAKOY, meaning 'of King Pharnaces', frames the scene. |
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| Reverse lettering | BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΦAPNAKOY |
| Edge | Plain |
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