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                ORC8417 Amisos, Gorgon, Early Brass, VF, NR
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                ORC8417 Amisos, Gorgon, Early Brass, VF, NR

Amisos, Pontus, Brass 20mm, (9.16g) Time of Mithradates VI, c. 85-65 BC,
Facing gorgon at center of shield. / AMI S[OY] Nike advancing right, AMTE
monogram below. SNG Black Sea 1177. VF, toned brassy color, adjustment
marks at periphery.

The brass coinage of Pontus precedes the Roman brass coinage by a
generation. Brass, a mixture of copper and zinc, with its golden color, was
valued in coinage at nearly double reddish bronze. However, its production
cost was similar. Its formulation and production were a highly profitable
government secret. In Natural History (xxxiii 95) Strabo (64 BC - 23? AD)
apparently wrote about brass (orichalcum). "There is a stone in the
neighborhood of Andeira which when burned becomes iron, and then when
heated in a furnace with a certain earth distills pseudargyros and this
with the addition of copper makes the mixture called by some oreichalkos."
Pseudargyros (Pseudo-silver) is presumably a term for zinc, while
oreichalkos is orichalcum, brass.*

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