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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 8295912, member: 85693&quot;]Hmm.&nbsp; You made me look over mine again.&nbsp; I thought I had a Simonetta 44a, based on my do-over using [USER=15481]@svessien[/USER] posts above.&nbsp; But I got it wrong - there is a straight-barred A (44c) and a bent-barred A (44a/b).&nbsp; Yours seems to have a straight bar 44c in that second one, as you correctly attributed. </p><p><br /></p><p>This one of mine also has the straight-barred A-Gamma, 44c.&nbsp; But it seems to have an extra loop on the upright leg of the gamma (for &quot;P&quot; or an &quot;O&quot; I&#039;d guess) - I don&#039;t see this on on the Simonetta posted, but it must be close as it has the &quot;Λ&quot; date in the exergue...the mystery (or my confusion) continues.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1466953[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Cappadocia&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Drachm </b></p><p><b>Ariobarzanes I Philoromaios</b></p><p><b>Year Λ (30) (66/65 B.C.)</b></p><p>Diademed, elderly head right / AΣIΛEΩΣ AΡIOBAΡZANOY ΦIΛOΡΩMAIOY around Athena standing left, holding Nike, spear and shield, ΓA-P (?) monogram in left field, Λ in exergue.</p><p>Simonetta 44c variation? </p><p>(4.00 grams / 16 mm )</p><p>eBay Oct. 2013&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; $16.51 </p><p><b>Attribution Note: </b></p><p>Simonetta 44a has a gamma with a bent-barred A.</p><p>Simonetta 44c has a gamma with a straight-barred A.</p><p>Neither one has the extra loop on the inside upright of the gamma like this one; for a P or O, presumably.&nbsp; Both have Λ in exergue for date.</p><p><br /></p><p>I certainly don&#039;t specialize in these, but I really like the type, and they are often for me affordable.&nbsp; And the portraits are terrific - Ariobarzanes seems so weary, yet wary.&nbsp; Or sluggish? <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie10" alt=":oops:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;...Cappadocians fighting consistently against Roman forces sent to assist Ariobarzanes. He did not himself enjoy the highest martial repute, considered &#039;quite sluggish&#039; (segnis admodum), an impression reinforced by his coin-portraits.&quot; </p><p><br /></p><p>Richard D. Sullivan, Near Eastern Royalty and Rome 100-30 BC</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Near_Eastern_Royalty_and_Rome_100_30_Bc/IDU5DwAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;dq=ariobarzanes+portrait&amp;pg=PT59&amp;printsec=frontcover" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Near_Eastern_Royalty_and_Rome_100_30_Bc/IDU5DwAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;dq=ariobarzanes+portrait&amp;pg=PT59&amp;printsec=frontcover" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/books/edition/Near_Eastern_Royalty_and_Rome_100_30_Bc/IDU5DwAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;dq=ariobarzanes+portrait&amp;pg=PT59&amp;printsec=frontcover</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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