bgr_325832 - CAPPADOCIA - CAPPADOCIAN KINGDOM - ARIARATHES IX EUSEBES PHILOPATOR Drachme
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Item sold on our e-shop (2015)
Price : 150.00 €
Type : Drachme
Date: an 2
Mint name / Town : Eusebeia, Cappadoce
Metal : silver
Diameter : 17,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 4,08 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et complet, parfaitement centré des deux côtés. Très beau portrait fin. Joli revers de style fin, mais de frappe un peu molle. Patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets dorés
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Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête diadémée d’Ariarathes IX à droite.
Reverse
Reverse description : Athéna nicéphore, casquée et drapée debout à gauche, tenant une Niké de la main droite et une longue javeline de la main gauche, appuyée sur un bouclier posé au sol ; de chaque côté, un monogramme.
Reverse legend : BASILEWS/ ARIARAQOU// EUSEBOUS/ (PO)|T// B.
Reverse translation : (du roi Ariarathes le pieux).
Commentary
Même coin de droit que l’exemplaire du trésor de Cappadoce, Essayas Robinson, p. 247, série n° 8/21, pl. 31. Portrait juvénile très particulier.
Historical background
CAPPADOCIA - CAPPADOCIAN KINGDOM - ARIARATHES IX EUSEBES PHILOPATOR
(101-87 BC)
Ariarathes IX is the son of Mithridates VI Eupator (120-63 BC). Installed by his father on the throne of Cappadocia at the age of eight. Mithridates was already the uncle of Ariarathes VII Philometor (116-115 BC) and brother-in-law of Ariarathes VI Epiphanes Philopator (130-116 BC). The real ruler of Cappadocia during the reign of Ariarathes IX was Mithridates VI of Pontus. The throne of the young sovereign was disputed to him by Ariobarzanes Ier Philoromaios (96-63 before J. - C.) who was elected by the noble Cappadocians having nothing to do with the old royal family. Driven out, then reinstated several times on the throne of Cappadocia, Ariarathes IX was finally assassinated in Thessaly in 87 BC..
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