Person
Name	Mithridates VI Eupator of Pontos (ca. 134-63 v. Chr.)
	As son of Mithradates V and Laodice VI, Mithradates was born c. 134 BC in Sinope. From c. 120 until his death in 63 BC he ruled the Pontic kingdom. He is also attested as first magistrate in Athens in 87/86 BC, explicitly identified as the Pontic king by the addition ΒΑΣΙΛΕ(υς): M. Thompson, The New Style Silver Coinage of Athens (1961) nos. 1143-1146 / her issue 76 (p. 575); C. Habicht, Zu den Münzmagistraten der Silberprägung des Neuen Stils, Chiron 21, 1991, pp. 6 and 12 (87/86 BC, his issue 78); Prosopographia Attica 10186 and 10187; W. Leschhorn, Lexikon der Aufschriften auf griechischen Münzen II (2009) 687 s. v. Mithradates.
Types	Authority , Magistrate (Ant) , Sitter
	http://www.lgpn.ox.ac.uk/id/V5a-2691
GND	https://d-nb.info/gnd/118734210
Wikipedia [de]	https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithridates_VI._(Pontos)
Wikipedia [en]	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithridates_VI_of_Pontus
Nomisma	https://nomisma.org/id/mithradates_vi_pontus
VIAF	https://viaf.org/viaf/70313624
	https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG95261
Wikidata	https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q185126
Permalink	https://ikmk.smb.museum/ndp/person/1203
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Person

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Mithridates VI Eupator of Pontos (ca. 134-63 v. Chr.)

As son of Mithradates V and Laodice VI, Mithradates was born c. 134 BC in Sinope. From c. 120 until his death in 63 BC he ruled the Pontic kingdom.

He is also attested as first magistrate in Athens in 87/86 BC, explicitly identified as the Pontic king by the addition ΒΑΣΙΛΕ(υς): M. Thompson, The New Style Silver Coinage of Athens (1961) nos. 1143-1146 / her issue 76 (p. 575); C. Habicht, Zu den Münzmagistraten der Silberprägung des Neuen Stils, Chiron 21, 1991, pp. 6 and 12 (87/86 BC, his issue 78); Prosopographia Attica 10186 and 10187; W. Leschhorn, Lexikon der Aufschriften auf griechischen Münzen II (2009) 687 s. v. Mithradates.

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Authority

, Magistrate (Ant)

, Sitter

http://www.lgpn.ox.ac.uk/id/V5a-2691