★ Extremly Rare ★

Kings of Cappadocia. Ariobarzanes I Philoromaios AR Drachm.
Dated Year 22 (74/3 BC).
Ariobarzanes I right, wearing diadem.
Rev: Athena standing left with right hand supporting spear and shield, and left hand outstretched supporting Nike left,
Holding wreath; BAΣΙΛEΩΣ to right, APIOBAPZANOY and monogram to left, ΦΙΛOPOΜAΙOY below, all within wreath.
Simonetta 30b; SNG Copenhagen Supplement, 941 (these dies)
Property of a Danish Collector. 2001
Extremely rare and important
Of the not to many examples of this coin with reverse filleted border.
One is known in the Simonetta collection, as well as one in the ANS, the Danish National Museum and the Cabinet des Médailles.
This extremely rare reverse type with filleted border was probably issued in commemoration of Ariobarzanes I's restoration to the throne by Lucullus.
It is the key drachm to the Cappadocian series
3,88 gr. 18 mm