Sale: Triton V, Lot: 1477. Estimate $4000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 January 2002.  Sold For $4500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CAPPADOCIA, Kings of. Ariarathes IX.. 101-87 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.62 gm). Year 213 (85/84 BC). Diademed head right / BASILEWS ARIARAQOU above, EUSEBOUS FILOPATOROS below, Pegasos grazing left; star and crescent left, and monogram right; all within a border of cable and grape leaves. Simonetta 1; De Callataÿ pg. 180 D1/R2 (this coin listed as specimen a); SNG von Aulock 6299 (same obverse die); SNG Lockett 3085 (same obverse die); Jameson 1636 (same obverse die). EF. Rare, only 14 specimens of 2 die combinations listed by De Callataÿ, 7 of which are in permanent museum collections. ($4000)