Pedigreed Ariarathes VII Tetradrachm
One of Nine Published Examples

CNG 102, Lot: 574. Estimate $5000. Sold for $13000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of CAPPADOCIA. Ariarathes VII Philometor. Circa 107/6-101/0 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29.5mm, 16.30 g, 11h). 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. 44, P = Mørkholm, Coinages I pl. 42, 14 (this coin); Simonetta 1 (this coin cited); Simonetta, Coins, p. 35 note 1 (this coin cited); Alram 157 (this coin illustrated); HGC 7, 828. EF, toned. Very rare, one of nine published, and the first example of this issue to have been discovered.

From the Friend of a Scholar Collection. Ex Numismatic Fine Arts XXV (20 November 1990), lot 181; Leu 20 (15 May 1978), lot 154.