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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pavlos, post: 7507746, member: 96635&quot;]Congratulations on your Ariobarzanes drachm!</p><p><br /></p><p>Why did you decide to choose this one? Did you like the design, or the king?</p><p><br /></p><p>Some of my Cappadocian kings:</p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/4JvbN2y.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>Ariarathes V Eusebes Philopator (163-130 BC). AR Drachm. Eusebeia-Mazaca mint, struck 133-132 B.C.</b></p><p><b>Obverse:</b> Diademed head of Ariarathes V to right.</p><p><b>Reverse:</b> BAΣΙΛΕΩΣ APIAPAΘOY EYΣEBOYΣ Athena standing left, holding Nike; A to outer left; monogram in outer right and inner left; below, date AΛ.</p><p><b>Reference:</b> Simonetta 8a (Ariarathes IV); HGC 811.</p><p>4.18g</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/GcwkUrm.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>Ariarathes IX Eusebes Philopator (circa 100-85 B.C.) AR Drachm. Mint B (Eusebeia-Mazaka). Dated RY 13 or 15 (88/7 or 86/5 BC).</b></p><p><b><b>Obverse:</b></b> Diademed head right, with Mithradatic style portrait.</p><p><b><b>Reverse:</b> </b>BAΣΙΛΕΩΣ APIAPAΘOY EYΣEBOYΣ, Athena Nikephoros standing left; monogram to inner left, [date in exergue].</p><p><b>Reference: </b>Callataÿ p. 181, obv. die D37 var. (slightly different monogram);</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/dnmZbsX.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>Ariarathes VI Epiphanes Philopator (130-116 B.C.). Imitation AR Tetradrachm in the name of Antiochos VII Euergetes (Sidetes) (138-129 B.C.). Cappadocian mint. Unmarked issue, perhaps dated Year 1.</b></p><p><b>Obverse:</b> Diademed head of Antiochos VII to right.</p><p><b>Reverse:</b> ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ / ΑΝΤΙΟΧΟY - EYEPΓETOY Athena standing front, head to left, holding Nike in her right hand and spear and shield in her left; to outer left, monogram above A; all within wreath.</p><p><b>Reference:</b> Early Cappadocian Tetradrachms in the Name of Antiochus VII (Elke Krengel, Catharine C. Lorber). Mint IV, emission 11, engraver X. Plate 18, 668 (same P4 reverse die).</p><p>15.82g; 28mm.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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