Kings of Pontos Drachm - Pharnakes I, -185 – -169

Drachm from Kings of Pontos. Issued from -185 to -169. Struck in Silver. Measures 16 mm and weighs 3.99 g.

Obverse

Diademed head of Pharnakes to right, with short beard and mustache and with his diadem end falling over his neck

Reverse

Uncertain male figure standing facing, wearing a floppy petasos and drapery reaching down to his knees; he holds a kerykeion and a cornucopiae with his left hand and, with his right, a vine branch from which a deer feeds, standing right at his feet. In inner field to left, star within crescent and in field to right, monogram of either ΑΤ or ΑΥ