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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Hellenistic Monarchies| > |Cappadocian Kingdom| > GS99754
Cappadocian Kingdom, Ariobarzanes I Philoromaios, c. 96 - 63 B.C.
|Cappadocian| |Kingdom|, |Cappadocian| |Kingdom,| |Ariobarzanes| |I| |Philoromaios,| |c.| |96| |-| |63| |B.C.|, Ariobarzanes I was a Cappadocian nobleman of obscure Persian descent. After the Roman Senate rejected the claims of Ariarathes IX, he was made king through a vote of Cappadocian citizens and with the support of the Roman consul Lucius Cornelius Sulla. He ruled a kingdom that was a Roman protectorate but was removed three separate times by Mithridates before not only securing but actually increasing his lands under Pompey in the Third Mithridatic War. He abdicated to make way for the rule of his son Ariobarzanes II.
GS99754. Silver drachm, Cohen DCA 460; HGC 7 846; cf. Simonetta p. 40, 1 ff. (various controls); BMC Galatia p. 41, 1 ff. (same), aF, toned, scratches, marks, Mazaka-Eusebeia (Kayseri, Turkey) mint, weight 4.071g, maximum diameter 16.9mm, die axis 0o, c. 96 - 64 B.C.; obverse diademed head right; reverse Athena Nikephoros standing left, Nike bearing wreath and palm in right hand, grounded shield and spear in left hand, BAΣIΛEΩΣ (king) downward on right, APIOBAPZANOY downward on left, ΦIΛOPΩMAIOY (friend of the Romans) below, obscure monograms (controls) left, right and/or in exergue; ex Jesus Vico auction 161 (21 Apr 2022), lot 160 (part of); SOLD











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