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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Terence Cheesman, post: 8381026, member: 86498&quot;]Saturday Afternoon and the sun is shining so what am I doing inside? Must be daft. I thought I would showcase this coin, </p><p>Kingdom of Cappadocia Ariarathes VII Ar Tetradrachm 107-101 BC, Tyana? In the name and types of Antiochos VII of Syria Obv. Diademed head of Antiochos VII right. Rv Athena Nikephoros standing left holding Nike all within laurel wreath SC 2136 16.60 grms 28 mm Photo by W. Hansen[ATTACH=full]1487453[/ATTACH]It would seem counterintuitive to mint a coin that is going to be your principle denomination using a type that features the king of another kingdom. However this phenomenon is rather more common than one might think. Most of the posthumous Alexander coinage was minted by states outside the sphere of influence of the Macedonian Kingdom and there is the contemporary copies of the Athenian Owl. There are others as well. This experiment in Cappadocia is rather unusual in that it appears to have occurred over a short period of time and the Kingdom had already established a fairly successful silver coinage based on the drachm.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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