Tetradrachm In the name of Antiochus VII

Ariarthes IX of Cappadocia struck coins in the name of Antiochus VII Sidetes decades after that Seleucid king's death — a deliberate dynastic legitimization strategy rooted in the marriage alliance between the Cappadocian and Seleucid royal houses. By the time this tetradrachm was struck around 101–100 BC, Antiochus VII had been dead for roughly three decades, killed in 129 BC during his disastrous Parthian campaign. Invoking his name was political theater, not error.