Ancient Coinage of Pontos

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CIVIC, UNCERTAIN AND SEMI-AUTONOMOUS COINAGE
Lindgren III 153Pontus, Anonymous AE 26mm. 160-130 BC. Male head left in leather cap; countermark: helmet / Eight-pointed star or sun-burst; small monogram. TextImage
SNG BMC 973Pontus, Anonymous Issue. Circa 130-100 BC. AE 24mm. Male head left in leather cap; c/ms: facing gorgoneion, thunderbolt, & helmet / Eight-pointed star or sun-burst; bow in right field. SNG Stancomb 649-650. TextImage
SNG BMC 983Pontus, AE21 of an uncertain mint. 130-100 BC. Leather helmet left / Star of eight rays with small crescents. BMC Black Sea 983; Baldwin 10-13 in RN 1913; Lindgren I, 59.TextImage
SNG BMC 984Uncertain mint in Pontus, 120-63 BC. AE20, 1.97 gr. Forepart of horse right / Comet, or star of eight rays with tail. Lindgren III 154; SNG BMC 984.TextImage
SNG Cop 230-231Pontus. Anonymous issue. ca 130-100 BC. AE 21mm. Bow-case with strap, countermark: helmet right / Eight-pointed star or sun-burst; bow right. SNG Stancomb 651; SNG Cop 230-231. TextImage
SNG Cop 232vPontus. Anonymous issue. Circa 130-100 BC. AE 26mm. Male head left in leather cap, three countermarks: thunderbolt, helmet right and gorgoneion facing / Eight-pointed star or sun-burst. TextImage
Stancomb 653Pontos, uncertain mint, AE, ca. 120-100 BC. 1.51 g. Horse's head right above eight-rayed star. / Eight-rayed star, palm branch at upper left. BMC Black Sea 984; Stancomb 653.TextImage
BRITANNICUS
RPC 3837Polemo II & Britannicus AR Drachm of the Kingdom of Pontus. BACIΛEΩC ΠOΛEMΩNOC, diademed head right. / ETOYC IH = year 18 = 55/56 AD. Laureate head of Britannicus right. SGI 5426.TextImage
RPC 3838Polemo II & Britannicus AR Drachm of the Kingdom of Pontus. Year 19 = 56/57 AD. BACIΛEΩC ΠOΛEMΩNOC, diademed head right. / ETOYC IΘ, laureate draped bust of Britannicus right.TextImage
NERO
RPC 3828Pontic Kingdom. Polemo II with Nero. A.D. 38-64. AR Drachm. A.D. 56/7. Diademed head of Polemo right / Laureate head of Nero right.TextImage
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RPC 3831Nero & Polemo II AR Drachm of the Kingdom of Pontos. Year 19 = 56/57 AD. ETOYC IΘ, laureate head of Nero right / BACIΛEOYC ΠOΛEMΩNOC, diademed head of Polemo II right. McClean 7390.TextImage
RPC 3832Nero & Polemo II AR Drachm of the Kingdom of Pontus. AEOU.. K, bare head of young Nero right / BACIΛEΩC ΠOΛEMΩNOCC, diademed head of Polemo right.TextObv-Rev
RPC 3834Nero & Polemo II AR Drachm of Kingdom of Pontus. Year 23 = 60-61 AD. ETOYC KΓ, laureate head of Nero right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΠOΛEMΩNOΣ, diademed head of Polemo right. BMC 9-10. TextObv-Rev
RPC 3837Kingdom of Pontus, Polemo II with Nero, AR Drachm. Dated Regnal Year 18 = 55/56 AD. Diademed head of Polemo right / Laureate, draped, [and cuirassed?] bust of Nero right; date before.TextImage
For Uncertain issues of Pontus, see the catalog by Agnes Baldwin in Revue Numismatique 1913, pp. 285 ff.
Amaseia
Amisos
Chabakta
Kings, Mithradates IV
Kings, Mithradates VI
Kings, Polemo II
Komana
Neocaesarea
Phanagoreia
Pharnakia
Taulara
Trapezus
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