Triton XVIII, Lot: 115. Estimate $5000. Sold for $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of CAPPADOCIA. Ariarathes I. 333-322 BC. AR Drachm (17.5mm, 5.29 g, 11h). Gaziura mint. Baal of Gaziura seated left, torso facing, holding grape bunch, grain ear, and eagle in extended right hand, lotus-tipped scepter in left; B’L GZYR (in Aramaic) to right / Griffin left attacking stag kneeling left. Simonetta 5a; Simonetta, Coins 1f; HGC 7, 791 (this coin illustrated); Sunrise 147 corr. (no name on rev.; this coin). Good VF, toned, minor flat spot on obverse. Very rare.

From the Sunrise Collection. Ex Triton XI (8 January 2008), lot 284.