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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 4983246, member: 99456&quot;]Although this thread is old - I am reviving to provide a link to the <a href="https://www.sullacoins.com/post/attributing-cappadocian-coins" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.sullacoins.com/post/attributing-cappadocian-coins" rel="nofollow">notes and references</a> that I organized on this epic battle.&nbsp; Although the date looks a bit distorted/worn? in the OP coin, I think it is the same as my coin :</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1197231[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Kings of cappadocia, Ariarathes V Eusebes Philopator</b>, circa 163-130 BC, AR Drachm, dated CY 33 (130 BC)</p><p><b>Obv: </b>Diademed head right</p><p><b>Rev:</b> Athena standing left, holding Nike, spear, and shield; T to outer left, monogram to inner left, Δ to outer right, ΓΛ (date) in exergue</p><p><b>Ref:</b> Simonetta (Ariarathes IV) 15a <a href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/42662304" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/42662304" rel="nofollow">Simonetta, B. (1961)</a></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1197234[/ATTACH]</p><p>In Typos II Simonetta 1977 it is called&nbsp; Ariarathes IV 16a p.24</p><p><br /></p><p>The mapping from Simonetta to Mørkholm is given in the 1979 article (Mørkholm, O. (1979). <a href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/42667050" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/42667050" rel="nofollow">The Cappadocians Again</a> with the Mørkholm 1969 article for the original citation)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1197238[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>There is a question about the dates - which do seem correlate with regnal years for Ariarathes V at least.&nbsp; The question is why so many dies use the date (ΓΛ). Mørkholm speculates that there might be a combination of :</p><p>1) a large issue in the last year of reign as Ariarathes V raised an army to aid the Romans against Aristonicus of Pergamon AND</p><p>2) more speculatively, a possibility for coins issued during the regency of Nysa (she killed 5/6 male heirs to retain control), she may have used this date (ΓΛ) on issues over four or five years 131-127 BC.</p><p><br /></p><p>More references and information on this in my <a href="https://www.sullacoins.com/post/attributing-cappadocian-coins" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.sullacoins.com/post/attributing-cappadocian-coins" rel="nofollow">Notes on Ancients Coins</a>.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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