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Lot # 147
KINGS OF CAPPADOCIA. Ariarathes VI Epiphanes Philopator, circa 130-116 BC. Drachm (Silver, 17.30 mm, 4.18 g) Dated RY 10 (= 121/0 BC) Mint C (Komana). Laureate head of Ariarathes right. Rev. ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ vertical to right, ΑΡΙΑΡΑΘΟΥ vertical to left, ΕΠΙΦΑΝΟΥΣ below. Athena Nikephoros draped and wearing long crested helmet, standing facing, head turned to left, holding long palm branch in the left hand, resting the arm along her hip and shield set vertical at her foot to the same side, crowning the king’s name to left with laurel wreath with bent right arm. Monogram to inner left and to outer right, I (date) in exergue. Simonetta 22a; HGC 7, 822. Very Fine. From a European collection formed prior to 2005.