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Kingdom of Cappadocia, Ariarathes VI Epiphanes Philopater (118-105 BC) AR Tetradrachm Coin.

Mint Place: Antioch State: Seleukid Kingdom Denomination: AR Tetradrachm Mint Period: Struck circa 114/3-109/8 BC Reference: Krengel Series 2; Krengel & Lorber 419 (A47/P127'). R! Condition: Scratches in obverse, minor corrosion in reverse, otherwise VF+ Ruler: Ariarathes VI Epiphanes Philopator. Circa 118/7-106/5 BC (struck in the name of Antiochos VII Euergetes) Weight: 16.50gm Diameter: 27mm Material: Silver

Obverse: Diademed head of Antiochos VII Euergetes (Sidetes) right.

Reverse: Athena Nikephoros standing left, flanked my small control marks (H-H). Monogram above A to outer left field; all within laurel wreath. Legends: BASILEWS ANTIOXOY (in right field) / EUER-GETOY (in left field)

Antioch on the Orontes (Latin: Antiochia ad Orontem; also Great Antioch or Syrian Antioch) was an ancient city on the eastern side of the Orontes River. It is near the modern city of Antakya, Turkey. Founded near the end of the 4th century BC by Seleucus I Nicator, one of Alexander the Great's generals, Antioch eventually rivaled Alexandria as the chief city of the Near East and was a cradle of gentile Christianity. It was one of the four cities of the Syrian tetrapolis. Its residents were known as Antiochenes.

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Ariarathes VI Epiphanes Philopator (Ancient Greek: Ἀριαράθης Ἐπιφανής Φιλοπάτωρ, Ariaráthēs Epiphanḗs Philopátōr; reigned 130–116 BC or 126 BC–111 BC), King of Cappadocia, was the youngest son of Ariarathes V of Cappadocia and Nysa of Cappadocia.

He reigned about 14 years (130–116 BC). He was a child at his succession, and for this reason the power was kept by his mother who acted as his regent. At some point her mother seems to have poisoned all Ariarathes' five brothers; but the infant king was saved by people loyal to the dynasty and had Nysa killed. These facts were a good pretext for his maternal uncle King Mithridates V Euergetes of Pontus (150 BC–120 BC), for trying to assert control over the country. For this he married Ariarathes to his maternal cousin Laodice of Cappadocia, his first daughter. Laodice bore Ariarathes one daughter and two sons: Nysa who married King Nicomedes III Euergetes of Bithynia; Ariarathes VII Philometor and Ariarathes VIII Epiphanes.

Since this wasn't deemed enough to transform Cappadocia in a satellite of Pontus, Mithridates V Euergetes' son, Mithridates VI, murdered Ariarathes using Gordius, a Cappadocian nobleman. On his death the kingdom was briefly ruled by Ariarathes' widow and then seized by King Nicomedes III of Bithynia, who married Laodice, the king's widow. Nicomedes III was soon expelled by Mithridates VI, who placed upon the throne Ariarathes VII.

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