153-63 BC Pontos Time of Mithradates Amisos Bronze Coin

153-63 BC Pontos Time of Mithradates Amisos Bronze Coin. 135-63 BC was the ruler of the kingdom of Pontus. In northern Anatolia from 120 to 63 BC, and one of the Roman Republic’s most determined opponents. He was an effective, ambitious, and ruthless ruler who sought to dominate Asia Minor and the Black Sea region, waging several hard-fought but ultimately unsuccessful wars to break Roman dominion over Asia and the Hellenic world. He has been called the greatest ruler of the Kingdom of Pontus. He cultivated an immunity to poisons by regularly ingesting sub-lethal doses, this practice, now called mithridatism, is named after him.