398, Lot: 298. Estimate $300. Sold for $525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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KINGS of CAPPADOCIA. Ariarathes I. 333-322 BC. AR Drachm (17mm, 5.10 g, 2h). 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 (“Baal [of] Gaziura” in Aramaic) to right / Griffin left attacking stag kneeling left; wreath above. Simonetta 2; Simonetta,
Coins –; HGC 7, 791 var. (wreath not noted). VF, toned, some roughness. Very rare, particularly with wreath on reverse.