bgr_325828 - CAPPADOCIA - CAPPADOCIAN KINGDOM - ARIARATHES VII PHILOMETOR Drachme

CAPPADOCIA - CAPPADOCIAN KINGDOM - ARIARATHES VII PHILOMETOR Drachme XF

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Price : 150.00 €

Type : Drachme

Date: an 1

Mint name / Town : Eusebeia, Cappadoce

Metal : silver

Diameter : 17 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 3,88 g.

Rarity : R1

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire sur un petit flan bien centré, court sur la date au revers. Beau portrait du roi. Revers légèrement stylisé. Patine grise

Catalogue references :

BMC.- - GC.7291 var. - CCK.1 var., pl. 4/11 - HGCS. 7/830

Obverse

Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.

Obverse description : Tête diadémée d’Ariarathes à droite.

Reverse

Reverse description : Athéna nicéphore, casquée et drapée debout à gauche, tenant une Niké de la main droite et une longue javeline de la main gauche, appuyée sur un bouclier posé au sol ; de chaque côté, un monogramme.

Reverse legend : BASILEWS/ ARIARAQOU// FILOMHTOROS/ (PA)I|-// [A].

Reverse translation : (du roi Ariarathes qui aile sa mére).

Commentary

Poids léger.

Historical background

CAPPADOCIA - CAPPADOCIAN KINGDOM - ARIARATHES VII PHILOMETOR

(116-101 BC)

Ariarathes VII, is the son of Ariarathes VI Ephiphanes Philopator (130-116 BC) and Laodike, the sister of Mithridates VI of Pontus (121-63 BC). On the death of his father, his mother assumed the regency. Nicomedes III, king of Bithynia (128-94 BC) seized Cappadocia and married Laodiké. Mithridates VI of Pontus in turn invaded the country, drove out Nicomedes and restored his nephew, Ariarathes VII. But a dissension arose between the kings of Cappadocia and Pontus about Gordios, a former collaborator of Ariarathes VI. War broke out, but Mithridates had his nephew assassinated before the battle and replaced him with his own son, Ariarathes IX (101-87 BC).

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