Mithradates I Callinicus c.100-70 BC (Kov 221-224)
Description
Mithradates (BNP [16]), son of Samos, was already king when Tigranes II reunified the former Armenian territories. He remained king as a vassal of Tigranes but virtually nothing has survived regarding his political or military activities.
His coinage consists of two types of four chalkoi with the king wearing a bashlyk and two types of two chalkoi, unusual because the obverse type is an eagle with a palm branch facing right, instead of the expected portrait of the king. The reverses of this series are standard types, consisting of a standing Athena, winged thunderbolt, caduceus, and a palm branch.
Kovacs, Frank L. “Armenian Coinage in the Classical Period” CNS 10, Classical Numismatic Group, Lancaster, 2016, pp. 40.
His coinage consists of two types of four chalkoi with the king wearing a bashlyk and two types of two chalkoi, unusual because the obverse type is an eagle with a palm branch facing right, instead of the expected portrait of the king. The reverses of this series are standard types, consisting of a standing Athena, winged thunderbolt, caduceus, and a palm branch.
Kovacs, Frank L. “Armenian Coinage in the Classical Period” CNS 10, Classical Numismatic Group, Lancaster, 2016, pp. 40.
