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Tetradrachm - Ariarathes IV Eusebes
| Issuer | Kings of Cappadokia |
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| Year | 220 BC - 163 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse lettering | ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΡΙΑΡΑΘΟΥ |
| Edge | Plain |
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Ariarathes IV reigned during a period when Cappadocia was navigating the competing pressures of Seleucid decline and the expanding reach of Rome. His epithet Eusebes — "the Pious" — was almost certainly a political signal, aligning the dynasty with Hellenistic religious conventions to shore up legitimacy at a moment when the old power structures of Anatolia were fragmenting rapidly. He cemented this position through a dynastic marriage to Antiochis, daughter of Antiochus III, a union that briefly tied Cappadocia to the Seleucid house just as that house was collapsing under Roman pressure at Magnesia in 190 BC.