Mithridates III of Pontus

Mithridates III. was the fourth king of Pontus and reigned from about 220 to about 185 BC

Life

The rule of not mentioned in the classical literary sources Mithridates III. was inferred from a remark of the biographer Plutarch and the historian Appian on the number of Pontic kings and confirmed by the discovery of his coins. Mithridates III. was the first king of Pontus, who minted coins with his portrait. It is not definitely decided whether he or the previous king Mithridates II a futile attempt to capture of Sinope made ​​(220 BC).