Triton XIX, Lot: 276. Estimate $7500. Sold for $6500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of CAPPADOCIA. Ariarathes VII Philometor. Circa 107/6-101/0 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28.5mm, 16.37 g, 12h). In the types of Antiochos VII of Syria. Mint A (Eusebia-Mazaka). Struck circa 107/6-104/3 BC. Diademed head right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ APIAPAΘOV ΦIΛOMH-TOPOΣ, Athena Nikephoros standing left; monogram above A to outer left, O to inner left, Λ to inner right; all within laurel wreath. Lorber & Houghton Series 1, Issue 1, 3 (A3/P2) = Callataÿ pl. XLIV, P = Mørkholm, Coinages I pl. 42, 14 (same dies); Simonetta 1 (same dies as illustration); Simonetta, Coins, p. 35 note 1; Alram 157 (same dies as illustration); HGC 7, 828. Good VF, toned, light deposits. Well centered and struck. Very rare, one of nine published examples.

Ex Künker 236 (7 October 2013), lot 111; Helios I (17 April 2008), lot 164.