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| | Asia Minor Coins - Pontos (Pontus) |
 | | Between 302 BC and 296 BC, Mithridates, the son of a Persian satrap servicing one of Alexander’s former generals (Antigonos), took complete control and established a dynasty that would last until the coming of the Romans. |
 | | The 5th ruler of that dynasty, Pharnakes, who ruled between 185 and 169 BC, and in the wake of Roman victories over Macedonia and the Seleucids of Syria, established allied relations with this new Mediterranean power. |
 | | Finally, in 63 BC, after the conquests of Pompey the Great and his final settlements, Pontos (now Pontus) was annexed as a joint province with neighboring Bithynia. |
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