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<p>[QUOTE="Ed Snible, post: 3749518, member: 82322"]Great write-up, [USER=96635]@Pavlos[/USER] , and also great coins. There seem to be very few Cappadocian kingdom coins on the market with even strikes from non-degraded dies.</p><p><br /></p><p>Neither photo of this Ariobarzanes I is mine. The first is NGC's photo. The second is likely Heritage's. In my office, with compact florescent lighting, the color looks more like Heritage's photo but the portrait looks more like NGCs.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1005566[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1005567[/ATTACH]</p><p>CAPPADOCIAN KINGDOM. Ariobarzanes I Philoromaios/Philoromaeus (96-66/3 BC). AR drachm (18mm, 1h). <i>Weight unknown!</i> Year 30 (66/5 BC).</p><p>Obv: Diademed head of Ariobarzanes I right</p><p>Rev: ΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ-ΑΡΙΟΒΑΡZΑΝΟΥ-ΦΙΛΟΡΩΜΑΙΟΥ, Athena standing left, Nike in right hand, left hand resting on grounded shield, spear behind; ΓA monogram in inner left field, Λ (date) below.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ed Snible, post: 3749518, member: 82322"]Great write-up, [USER=96635]@Pavlos[/USER] , and also great coins. There seem to be very few Cappadocian kingdom coins on the market with even strikes from non-degraded dies. Neither photo of this Ariobarzanes I is mine. The first is NGC's photo. The second is likely Heritage's. In my office, with compact florescent lighting, the color looks more like Heritage's photo but the portrait looks more like NGCs. [ATTACH=full]1005566[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1005567[/ATTACH] CAPPADOCIAN KINGDOM. Ariobarzanes I Philoromaios/Philoromaeus (96-66/3 BC). AR drachm (18mm, 1h). [I]Weight unknown![/I] Year 30 (66/5 BC). Obv: Diademed head of Ariobarzanes I right Rev: ΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ-ΑΡΙΟΒΑΡZΑΝΟΥ-ΦΙΛΟΡΩΜΑΙΟΥ, Athena standing left, Nike in right hand, left hand resting on grounded shield, spear behind; ΓA monogram in inner left field, Λ (date) below.[/QUOTE]
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