14C057
CAPPADOCIAN KINGDOM, ARIARATHES VII
AR Tetradrachm (16.51gm) c. 110-99 B.C.

Diademed head of Ariarathes VII right / Athena standing left, holding Nike. Mørkholm, SNR 57, pl. 42, 14.

Very Rare. This coin of the child-king Ariarathes VII was probably struck around the time his uncle, Mithradates VI of Pontus, invaded Cappadocia, drove out the queen-regent and her new husband (Nicomedes III of Bithynia), and placed Ariarathes on the throne as sole ruler.

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