Pontic coinage probably began during the reign of Mithridates II of Pontus, in the 3rd century BC. Early Pontic coinage imitated Macedonian coinage with Alexander the Great's portraits. Later coinage

Mithridates or Mithradates VI Eupator sometimes known as Mithridates the Great was the ruler of the Kingdom of Pontus in northern Anatolia from 120 to 63 BC, and one of the Roman Republic's most formi