Very Rare Issue

309, Lot: 108. Estimate $150. Sold for $380. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of CAPPADOCIA. Ariarathes III or Ariarathes IV Eusebes. Circa 230-220 BC or 220-163 BC, respectively. Æ (14mm, 1.96 g, 12h). Head left, wearing bashlyk / Athena standing left, holding spear and shield. Simonetta 8 (Ariarathes III); Simonetta, Coins 4 (Ariarathes II?); Alram 144 (Ariarathes IV); HGC 7, 808 (Ariarathes IV). VF, green patina. Only two cited in Alberto Simonetta’s 2007 study.