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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 3073731, member: 82322&quot;]Let&#039;s make up our own minds.&nbsp; I haven&#039;t found any examples with a secure find spot but I would not be surprised if this type was minted in <b>both</b> Pontos and Cappadocia.</p><p><br /></p><p>You can see the British Museum example, which is not good, at <a href="http://www.s110120695.websitehome.co.uk/PHP/SNG_PHP/04_03_Reply.php?Series=SNGuk&amp;AccessionNo=0901_0984" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.s110120695.websitehome.co.uk/PHP/SNG_PHP/04_03_Reply.php?Series=SNGuk&amp;AccessionNo=0901_0984" rel="nofollow">http://www.s110120695.websitehome.co.uk/PHP/SNG_PHP/04_03_Reply.php?Series=SNGuk&amp;AccessionNo=0901_0984</a> .&nbsp; That coin (or type?) was published in 1969 by K.V. Golenko.&nbsp; &quot;Pontic Anonymous Copper&quot;.&nbsp; I haven&#039;t read it.&nbsp; Russians usually know about Black Sea coins, not Cappadocians.</p><p><br /></p><p>It turns out there is a Pontos/Cappadocia connection.&nbsp; There is another coin from Cappadocia that is very similar to the aegis/Nike bronzes of Mithradates.&nbsp; [USER=42634]@chrsmat71[/USER] just posted a Pontic example.&nbsp; Here is a Cappadocian aegis/volcano example: <a href="http://www.asiaminorcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=285&amp;pid=14405#top_display_media" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.asiaminorcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=285&amp;pid=14405#top_display_media" rel="nofollow">http://www.asiaminorcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=285&amp;pid=14405#top_display_media</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Most authorities attribute the aegis/volcano type to Archelaus, a Roman client and Cappadocia’s last king.&nbsp; But H. Herrli believes this coinage was struck after 101 BC <b>when Mithradates the Great’s eight-year-old son Ariarathes IX governed Cappadocia.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>The Ariarathes IX attribution seems reasonable to me.&nbsp; It seems unlikely that Archelaus, a Roman puppet, would use one of Mithradates’ coin types.&nbsp; Herrli’s assignment of the coin to Ariarathes IX, who reigned 101-89 BC, implies that the aegis design was used in Cappadocia directly <b>before</b> its adoption by Mithradates VI on his massive Pontic bronze issue.&nbsp; That is the opposite of Imhoof-Blumer and E. A. Sydenham’s speculation, that the transmission went from Mithradates’ mints to Eusebeia.</p><p><br /></p><p>The gorgoneion countermarks were applied in Pontos, not Cappadocia.&nbsp; It would be surprising for small change from Cappadocia to make it to Pontos for countermarking.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is possible some Lanz coins were issued by Mithradates&#039; son in Cappadocia.&nbsp; That doesn&#039;t mean most are.</p><p><br /></p><p>There was a thread on these coins on Forum and I don&#039;t think I convinced many people there.&nbsp; <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=113892.0" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=113892.0" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=113892.0</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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