FORVM Commodus March or April 177 - 31 Dec 192 AD Caesarea Cappadocia - $138 - (Morehead City, NC)
Commodus, March or April 177 - 31 December 192 A.D., Caesarea, CappadociaCappadocia is in eastern Anatolia, in the center of what is now Turkey. After ending Persian rule, Alexander the Great intended to rule Cappadocia through one of his military commanders, but Ariarathes, a Persian aristocrat, somehow made himself king of the Cappadocians. Ariarathes I was successful and extended the borders of the Cappadocian Kingdom as far as the Black Sea. After Alexander's death, Perdiccas designated Eumenes to rule the area. Ariarathes was defeated, captured and crucified, but due to Macedonian infighting Ariarathes' son recovered his inheritance. He left the kingdom to a line of successors, who mostly bore the name of the founder of the dynasty. Under Ariarathes IV, Cappadocia became an ally of Rome. The kingdom maintained independence until A.D. 17, when the Tiberius reduced Cappadocia to a Roman province. Mount Erciyes (Argaios to the Greeks, Argaeus to the Romans) is a massive stratovolcano located 25 km to the south of Kayseri (ancient Caesarea) in Turkey. The highest mountain in central Anatolia, with its summit reaching 3,916 meters (12,848 ft). It may have erupted as recently as 253 B.C., as may be depicted on Roman era coins. Strabo wrote that the summit was never free from snow and that those few who ascended it reported seeing both the Black Sea to the north and the Mediterranean Sea to the south in days with a clear sky.RP87685. Silver didrachm, references: cf. RPC IV Online 10073; Metcalf Cappadocia 146a; SNGvA 6441; SNG Cop 250 var. (legends); Sydenham Cappadocia Supp. 370a var. (same); BMC Galatia -; condition: aVF, frosty porous surfaces, bumps and marks, tine edge split, reverse legend ending in exergue is obscure, mint: Cappadocia, Caesarea (Kayseri, Turkey), weight: 3.343g, maximum diameter: 21.6mm, die axis: 0o, date struck: COS III, 181 - 182 A.D.; obverse AYT M AYPH KOMO - ANTNINOC C, laureate head right; reverse UATOC - AT A-[TP...(?)], Mount Argaio…
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